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Introduction: Centrifuge And Fragmentation, Helena Goscilo
Introduction: Centrifuge And Fragmentation, Helena Goscilo
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The seismic changes inaugurated by desovietization not only recast the entire framework of Russia's cultural priorities, production, and reception, but ultimately revised fundamental concepts of what constitutes culture…
About That: Deploying And Deploring Sex In Postsoviet Russia , Eliot Borenstein
About That: Deploying And Deploring Sex In Postsoviet Russia , Eliot Borenstein
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Desovietization brought sex as a visible cultural phenomenon into Russia, one rife with contradictions and conflicts. Newspapers, popular magazines, advertisements, pornography, the first Russian sex talk show (About That), and pronouncements by a broad range of quotable public figures indicate that the problematics of sex during the 1990s consisted of the following: a sexualized relationship between Russia and the West; a sexualization of politics (rather than the politicization of sex); an inflexible yet implicit code governing the deployment of sex in "high" and "low" culture; and, above all, the development of a sexual discourse that defied circumlocution and …