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It was forever, until it ended. The last Soviet generation

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It was forever, until it ended. The last Soviet generation
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For Soviet people, the collapse of the socialist system was both an absolute surprise and something quite natural. This dramatic event exposed an unusual paradox: despite the fact that most people perceived the Soviet system as eternal and unchanging, they were in principle always prepared for its collapse. The book by Alexei Yurchak, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, analyzes the system of "late socialism" (mid-1950s to mid-1980s) from the perspective of this paradox. The image of late socialism that emerges in the book is fundamentally different from the usual stereotypes, according to which Soviet reality can be reduced to a description based on simple oppositions: official/unofficial culture, totalitarian language/free language, political suppression/civil resistance, public lies/hidden truth. The book was awarded the 2015 Illuminator Prize.
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