{"product_id":"stalins-soviet-monastery-9781433171024","title":"Stalins Soviet Monastery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStalin's Soviet Monastery\u003c\/i\u003e Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to develop a holistic analysis of Russian society that includes a theoretically based rationale for ignoring ideology in favor of cultural dynamics. While the young Iosif Djugashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin, was studying to be a priest in an Orthodox seminary, he took on the role that defined his political career, that of a sadistic elder who imposed fiendish vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience on hapless Soviet citizens. As an exercise in historical anthropology, \u003ci\u003eStalin's Soviet Monastery\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the role of myth and ritual in Russia, a society with strong residual orality. The imitation of Christ is called passion-suffering, a practice that helps to explain the widespread acquiescence to Stalin's practices. Stalin was intensely interested in literature, and his favorite author was Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Some passages in Dostoyev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures – Preface – Acknowledgements – Introduction – A New Discourse on Method – Searching for \u003ci\u003eStikhiinost’ \u003c\/i\u003eand Anticipating Doom: Some Continuities in Modern Russian Culture – Three Contextualizing Stalin’s Career – Russian Cultural Thematics and the Cults of Lenin and Stalin – Anticipations of Stalinism in Three Major Works by Dostoyevsky – \"Reflection\" Theory, Monism, and the Literary Jeremiad in Russia – Afterword. What Happened to Stalinism after 1991? – Bibliography – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039661228375,"sku":"9781433171024","price":71.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433171024.jpg?v=1750944405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stalins-soviet-monastery-9781433171024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}