... with a discussion of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, which Gorbachev described as a watershed in his approach toward reform. It includes observations from the author’s position as chief of US-Soviet bilateral relations at the time of Chernobyl. Mikhail Gorbachev Andrei Gromyko acceleration Chernobyl...

... Mikhail Bakhtin Édouard Glissant dialogics theoreticism aesthetics ...

... grotesquerie Wangechi Mutu Mikhail Bakhtin Black feminism ...

... Junot Díaz Thomas Hobbes Mikhail Bakhtin humor carnivalesque ...

... Mikhail Gorbachev Andrei Gromyko acceleration Chernobyl antialcohol campaign ...

... Boris Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev Leonid Kravchuk Belavezha accord ...

... August coup Boris Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev living ring Russian White House ...

... Boris Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev George H. W. Bush German unification Five Hundred Days ...

... Soviet economy Soviet military spending Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin ...

... an emancipatory future. Socially engaged practices seek to combine these two modalities. In order to preserve this aspect of engaged art practice, it is necessary to supplement the concept of social labor with an alternative model of intersubjective experience found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With Bakhtin...

... Adducing black feminism’s theories of the flesh and Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the grotesque, this chapter reads together Kenyan American visual artist Wangechi Mutu and African American genderqueer author Marci Blackman to make the case for Black grotesquerie as an expressive mode...

..., it is necessary to supplement the concept of social labor with an alternative model of intersubjective experience found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With Bakhtin, readers can identify an aesthetic paradigm that accounts for the creative processes involved in the reciprocal transformation of self and other...

... political, ethnic, and social criticism that eroded the foundations of the system. The chapter ends with a discussion of the role of individual leaders in the collapse, including Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Reagan, and Bush. Soviet economy Soviet military spending Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Mikhail...

... and describes the euphoria that gripped Moscow, based on the author’s personal experience. August coup Boris Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev living ring Russian White House ...

... capitalism of the 1990s and the corrupt kleptocracy of Putin’s Russia. Boris Yeltsin Mikhail Gorbachev Leonid Kravchuk Belavezha accord ...