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Russia and soul : an exploration
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- Creator
- Dale Pesmen
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 364 pages : 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801487099, 9781501729386, 0801437393, 9780801487095, 1501729381, 9780801437397
- OCLC
- ocn705966856, ocm44132882
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 1. Situating soul. Is soul a thing? O.M.S.K. -- pt. 2. Against and for dusha. In public transportation and in the soul : you call this life? A channel between worlds. The language of music and the Russian language. The baths : a celebration for soul and body. Story : For Anna Viktorovna -- pt. 3. Everyone wants something, but only through someone. Two stories : Decency, generosity. Do not have a hundred rubles, have instead a hundred friends. Story : Pulling something out of a hat. Like the Trojan Horse's gut : hospitality and nationalism. Standing bottles, washing deals, and drinking for the soul. If you want to live you've got to krutit'sia : crooked and straight -- pt. 4. Authority. Depth, openings and closings. Story : A second soul. If you want to know a man, give him power -- pt. 5. Togetherness. Those who poke into my soul : Bakhtin, Dostoevsky, love. We lost some neatness -- pt. 6. Conclusions. Two discussions : semantics and national character, homo sovieticus. Epilogue. Non-Russian souls