Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe. Ed. by Mark D. Steinberg, Valeria Sobol. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani (“Gypsy”) musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars.
These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling.
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Acknowledgments vii
Mark D. Steinberg and Valeria Sobol —Introduction 3
1—Ilya Vinits ky “The Queen of Lofty Thoughts” The Cult of Melancholy in Russian Sentimentalism 8
2—Andrei Zorin —Leaving Your Family in 1797 Two Identities of Mikhail Murav’ev 44
3—Victoria Frede—Radicals and Feelings—The 1860s 62
4—Alexandra Oberländer —Shame and Modern Subjectivities—The Rape of Elizaveta Cheremnova 82
5—Ronald Grigor Suny —Thinking About Feelings: Affective Dispositions and Emotional Ties in Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire 102
6—Glennys Young — Bolsheviks and Emotional Hermeneutics: The Great Purges, Bukharin, and the February-March Plenum of 1937 128
7—Polly Jones —Breaking the Silence—Iurii Bondarev’s Quietness between the “Sincerity” and “Civic Emotion” of the Thaw 152
8—Judith Pintar—Emplaced and Displaced—Theorizing the Emotions of Space in the Former Yugoslavia 177
9—Jack R. Friedman—A Genealogy of Working-Class Anger History, Emotions, and Political Economy in Romania’s Jiu Valley 201
10—Carol Silverman—Music, Emotion, and the “Other” Balkan Roma and the Negotiation of Exoticism 224
11—Serguei Alex. Oushakine —Emotional Blueprints: War Songs as an Affective Medium 248
Bibliography 277
Index 285
Contributors 281
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