Issue #70 The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

Ilya Budraitskis

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Issue #70
February 2016










Notes
1

Svetlana Alexievich, “On the Battle Lost,” Nobel lecture, December 7, 2015 .

2

Svetlana Alexievich, “Время second-hand: Конец красного человека” (Second-hand time: The demise of the Red Man), Дружба Народов, August 2013 .

3

Interview with Svetlana Alexievich, news.tut.by, December 7, 2015 .

4

Interview with Vladimir Sorokin, Kommersant, August 17, 2015 .

5

Ibid.

6

Interview with Vladimir Sorokin, Radio Poland, June 23, 2015 .

7

Lev Gudkov, Boris Dubin, and Natalia Zorkaya, Постсоветский человек и гражданское общество (Post-Soviet man and civil society) (Moscow: Moscow School of Political Research, 2008), 8–11.

8

This approach was analyzed in depth by Sheila Fitzpatrick in her well-known book Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).

9

Louis Althusser, “Contradiction and Overdetermination,” 1962. Available at marxists.org .

10

Jürgen Habermas, “Historical Consciousness and Post-Traditional Identity: Remarks on the Federal Republic’s Orientation to the West,” Acta Sociologica, Vol. 31, No. 1 (1988): 10.

11

Althusser, “Contradiction and Overdetermination.”

Translated from the Russian by Giuliano Vivaldi.