...Lilya Kaganovsky Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 There Is No Acoustic Relation Considerations on Sound and Image in Post-Soviet Film lilya kaganovsky Kira Muratova’s 1992 fi lm, Chuvstvitel’nyi militsioner (The Sen- timental Policeman), opens with a close-up of a baby’s face.1...

...Serguei Alex. Oushakine The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 unleashed a new wave of decolonization, and throughout the 1990s, the newly independent states spent a lot of time and effort articulating their visions of sovereignty. Unlike neighboring Lithuania, which could turn its brief...

...Roy Chan Abstract Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89) is best known for his utopian realist novel What Is to Be Done? (1863). However, he was perhaps most celebrated as a literary thinker in China as a result of the Soviet canonization of the nineteenth-century “democratic critics.” This essay...

... the dismissive attitude of leading Western social and critical theorists toward Soviet and Eastern European Marxist epistemologies in constructing their own anticapitalist thought, with special attention paid to the relationship between gender, sexuality, and systems of private property. Chukhrov and Popa...

... retrospectively, a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union. The word story , though, also points to the most idiosyncratic aspect of Miéville’s book: its literary style. Although a number of scholarly books within the last year or two have been written to mark the revolution’s centenary, summing up...

...- ture, and Cinema at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of How the Soviet Man Was Unmade (2008) as well as articles on gender, masculinity, and the body in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Russian...

...) industrial novels: one phi lo-fascist, by the culture critic and polemicist Bardi and the other Philo-Soviet, by the noted writer-journalist Ehrenburg. Both Bardi and Ehrenburg oscillated between being intellectual insiders and outsiders with respect to the two October revolutions that left...

... that marked his losing battle with mental illness, defined by paranoid tendencies. In this particular letter, he sought to inform the bureau of a Soviet attempt to infiltrate the American subconscious via the medium he was personally familiar with—science fiction. This was the threat: a Soviet-supported...

...” was likely the result of an internal lack of dynamism inherent in Stalinist developmental policies, it was changes in the world economy that brought the Soviet Union down in the end. In her pathbreaking book, Katherine Verdery makes these suggestive remarks: “The critical intersection [toward the collapse...

... ca- reer as a sculptor, quickly adopting text as an essential medium to his work. An early poet and public art promoter, Prigov belongs to that generation of Russian artists who emerged in the 1970s to challenge the restrictive environment of the late Soviet period. Prigov’s printable work...

... personne humaine”] in French or “every one” in English. It is quite possible that worries about reducing the law to a prop- erty of the individual might have simultaneously satisfi ed the de- mand of Soviet jurists—for whom this abstraction masked the po- litical signifi cation...

... University. He founded and chaired the Corporate Health Care Coalition in 1992 and in 1994 took on responsibility for new business development in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Latin America. ...

... of the udhr reveal that the Soviets and representatives from post- colonial states were essential in producing the language of “social and cultural rights.”37 Moreover, the social theory and jurispru- dence of Eastern Bloc states teems with attempts to incorporate human rights norms into socialist legal...

... of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Cul- ture; Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with two coauthors); Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry); and Cries in the New Wilderness: From...

... in 1997 from Sun & Moon Press. He has also published two book-length poems, Progress (1985) and Under Erasure (1992), and is co-author of Leningrad: American Poets in the Soviet Union (1992). As editor, he brought out two landmark journals of poetry...

...). MACHINE PRIMITIVES 85 the first three issues, a clear indication of her close relations to the Lamour equipe. Krull's previous affiliation with anarchist circles, as well as her status as a "New Woman," appealed to Lamour, who shared her distrust of Soviet Bolshevism, as well...

...: University of Chicago Press, 1999). 208 BOOKS RECEIVED Richard Sawka, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: 1917-1991 (New York: Routledge, 1999). Graham Shipley, The Greek World after Alexander: 323-30 B. C. (New York: Routledge, 2000...

...) makes it clear that Fascist and Soviet mod- ernisms shared not a little faith in the transcendental potential of technology. For both authors, the automobile simultaneously crys- tallizes the driver's individuality and links him with a larger collec- tive. At once a hypostatization of technological...

...: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Leo Zaibert, Five Ways Patricia Can Kill Her Husband: A Theory of Intentionality and Blame (Chicago: Open Court, 2005). ...

... started after the recession of 1973-4, the election of anti-Soviet crusaders Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan inspired a new alloy of far-right conservatism and monetarist economics.' The "unfettered magic of the free market" provided the rationale for an international shift in financial policy...