Soviet Debris: Failure and the Poetics of Unfinished Construction in Northern Siberia.

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Title:	Soviet Debris: Failure and the Poetics of Unfinished Construction in Northern Siberia.
Authors:	Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai
Source:	Social Research. Fall2016, Vol. 83 Issue 3, p689-721. 33p.
Subjects:	Failure (Psychology), Other (Philosophy), History of anthropology, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, History of Siberia, Russia, History of socialism, History
Geographic Terms:	Soviet Union
Abstract:	The article discusses aspects of failure and the poetics of unfinished construction in Northern Siberia. Topics include the anthropology of postsocialism as a distinct problematic as Sovietology gives way to transitology, the elaboration of the work of failure as a regime of truth that signifies otherness, and a depiction of ethnographic context through the Soviet program of noncapitalist development. Other topics include the afterlife of Soviet socialism, and the construction of communism and liberal capitalism.
Database:	Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

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Abstract:	The article discusses aspects of failure and the poetics of unfinished construction in Northern Siberia. Topics include the anthropology of postsocialism as a distinct problematic as Sovietology gives way to transitology, the elaboration of the work of failure as a regime of truth that signifies otherness, and a depiction of ethnographic context through the Soviet program of noncapitalist development. Other topics include the afterlife of Soviet socialism, and the construction of communism and liberal capitalism.
ISSN:	0037783X