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Book SynopsisApplying postcolonial, poststructural, and globalization theories to post-Soviet transformations, author Olga Baysha seeks to explain the gap between how the intellectuals and working people of the late USSR imagined marketization and democratization.
Trade ReviewBaysha's point is not simply that 'the intellectuals' were deluded or cynical tools and that Soviet citizens were misled and taken advantage of. . . .more important is her argument that what took place here was a form of collective communicative disorientation. * The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsCONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART I. MODERNITY AND MYTH CHAPTER 1. Modernity and Its Projects Modernity, Colonization, and Globalization Multiple Modernities and Cultural Hybridization Modernization through Internal Colonization The Myth of Enlightenment CHAPTER 2. Deconstructing Mythologies Roland Barthes’s Mythologies The Schizophrenia of the Network The Idea of Framing Frame Analysis of Modernization Myths PART II. SOVIET MODERNITY CHAPTER 3. The Rise and Fall of an Alternative Project Great Transformation Stagnation and Gorbachev Reforms CHAPTER 4. The Discourses of Perestroika Democracy Market The United States PART III. THE VERNACULAR VS. THE ELITE On Methodology CHAPTER 5. Mythologizing Democracy Intellectual Mythology: The Highway of Civilization Vernacular Mythology: Power to the People! CHAPTER 6. Mythologizing the Market Intellectual Mythology: The invisible Hand Vernacular Mythology: Enriching Working People CHAPTER 7. Mythologizing the United States: The Horn of Plenty PART IV. THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF PERESTROIKA CHAPTER 8. The Twilight Zone The Spirit of Hopelessness World Risk Society The Logic of Both / And CHAPTER 9. Schizophrenia as a Communicative Disorder Double Bind Network Schizophrenia and the Public Sphere CHAPTER 10. Personal Reflections CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources: Media Articles Secondary Sources APPENDIX A . Research Design Data Collecting Coding APPENDIX B . Statistical Results
