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Author Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai V., author.

Title Two Lenins : a brief anthropology of time / Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Published Chicago, IL : HAU Books, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 150 pages) : illustrations
Series The Malinowski monographs
Malinowski monographs series.
Contents 00_Cover; 00_FM; 01_Ack; 01a_List of figures; 02_Chapter_1; 03_Chapter_2; 04_Chapter_3; 05_Chapter_4; 06_Chapter_5; 07_Chapter_6; 08_Ref; 09_Backmatter; 10_Backmatter_1; 11_Backcover
Summary Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical exploration in fascinating ethnographic and historical material on two Lenins: the first is the famed Soviet leader of the early twentieth century, and the second is a Siberian Evenki hunter--nicknamed "Lenin"--Who experienced the collapse of the USSR during the 1990s. Through their intertwined stories, Ssorin-Chaikov unveils new dimensions of ethnographic reality by multiplying our notions of time. Ssorin-Chaikov examines Vladimir Lenin at the height of his reign in 1920s Soviet Russia, focusing especially on his relationship with American businessperson Armand Hammer. He casts this scene against the second Lenin--the hunter on the far end of the country, in Siberia, at the far end of the century, the 1990s, who is tasked with improvising postsocia
Ssorin-Chaikov examines Vladimir Lenin at the height of his reign in 1920s Soviet Russia, focusing especially on his relationship with American businessperson Armand Hammer. He casts this scene against the second Lenin -- the hunter on the far end of the country, in Siberia, at the far end of the century, the 1990s, who is tasked with improvising postsocialism in the economic and political uncertainties of post-Soviet transition. Moving from Moscow to Siberia to New York, and traveling form [sic] the 1920s to the 1960s to the 1990s, Ssorin-Chaikov takes readers beyond a simple global history or cross-temporal comparison, instead using these two figures to enact an ethnographic study of the very category of time that we use to bridge different historical contexts."--Page 4 of cover
Analysis Anthropology
History, Time and Temporality, Lenin, Soviet Union, Siberia, America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-143) and indexes
Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Translated from Russian
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In OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Subject Time -- Sociological aspects.
Time perception -- Sociological aspects
Ethnohistory -- Soviet Union
Anthropology -- Soviet Union
HISTORY -- World.
Anthropology
Ethnohistory
Time -- Sociological aspects
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781912808205
191280820X
9780997367539
0997367539