Common Places
Author | : Svetlana BOYM |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674028647 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674028643 |
Rating | : 4/5 (643 Downloads) |
Download or read book Common Places written by Svetlana BOYM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.