Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation — Stable Forms, Changing Meaning
How can a political system appear permanent while the meanings people attach to it are quietly changing?
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Using Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates one of the defining paradoxes of late Soviet socialism: why the system could seem essentially immutable before perestroika, yet become surprisingly easy to reinterpret once transformation began.
Yurchak challenges the familiar picture of Soviet life as a simple opposition…
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