Russia and Soul : : An Exploration / / Dale Pesmen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Pesmen, Dale,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

This ethnography of everyday life in contemporary Russia is also an examination of discourses and practices of "soul" or dusha. Russian soul has historically appeared as a myth, a consoling fiction, and a trope of national and individual self-definition that drew romantic foreigners to Rus...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Dedication and Acknowledgments
• Nate on Transliteration, Translation, and Names
• Glossary
• PART I. SITUATING SOUL
• Introduction: Is soul a thing?
• 1. O.M.S.K.
• PART II .AGAINST AND FOR DUSHA
• 2. In Public Transportation and in the Soul: You call this life?
• 3. A Channel between Worlds
• 4. The Language of Music and the Russian Language
• 5. The Baths: A Celebration for Soul and Body
• Story: For Anna Viktorovna
• PART III. EVERYONE WANTS SOMETHING, BUT ONLY THROUGH SOMEONE
• Two Stories: Decency (Oleg), Generosity (Grisha)
• 6. Do Not Have a Hundred Rubles, Have Instead a Hundred Friends
• Story: Pulling Something Out of a Hat
• 7. Like the Trojan Horse's Gut: Hospitality and Nationalism
• 8. Standing Bottles, Washing Deals, and Drinking for the Soul
• 9. If You Want to Live, You've Got to Krutit'sia: Crooked and Straight
• PART IV. AUTHORITY
• 10. Depth, Openings, and Closings
• Story A Second Soul
• 11. If You Want to Know a Man, Give Him Power
• PART V. TOGETHERNESS
• 12. Those who Poke into My Soul: Dostoevsky, Bakhtin, Love
• 13. We Lost Some Neatness
• PART VI. CONCLUSIONS
• Two Discussions: Semantics and National Character I Homo Sovieticus
• Conclusions
• Epilogue: Non-Russian Souls
• Bibliography
• Index