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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Kul`tura i Rechevaia Povsednevnost` of Epokhi Perestroiki
[ Russian conversations : Culture and everyday talk of the epoch of "perestroika"]
Transl. from English by N.N. Kulakova, V.B. Gulida
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2005 368 p Serie: Biblioteka zhurnala "Neprikosnovennyi zapas" Hardcover. 14 x 21.5 cm ISBN: 5867933539 Language: Russian
This is a translation of one of the most interesting studies about post-perestroika Russia made on the intersection of anthropology, sociology, and journalism. The sudy is based an analysis of Russian spontaneous conversation. Contents: "Speech activity" in Russia in the epoch of "perestroika"; "Our dreamland country"; Narrative images of Russia; Spheres of women and men; Lamentations: Discursive art of suffering; Mystical poverty and losses carrying the trophy; Rituals and paradoxes of perestroika. Bibliography. Richly illustrated.
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