The Ethics of Postcommunism: History and Social Praxis in Russia

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
To Uryupinsk......Page 16
The End of History and the Study of Postcommunism......Page 18
The Workless Slave......Page 24
Profane Messianism......Page 29
Subtractive Negation......Page 33
The Intellectual......Page 37
Towards a Post-historical Ethos......Page 43
The Long Farewell to the 1990s......Page 53
Timelessness, Chronos and Kairos......Page 55
The Lingering of the Political......Page 60
The End of Time and the Time of the End......Page 65
Inoperosity......Page 69
Postcommunist Playland......Page 74
Post-transitionalism and its Double......Page 78
The Realm of Pure Synchrony......Page 84
Why Russia No Longer Celebrates November 7......Page 90
The Legacy of Alexander Rutskoi......Page 94
Poetry and Politics in the Ethics of Postcommunism......Page 99
The Refusal of Work in Soviet Counter-Culture......Page 104
Ivanov, or Beside the System......Page 112
What is a Pure Performative?......Page 116
Para-Soviet Praxis......Page 122
Identity and Potentiality in Para-Soviet Milieus......Page 127
Between Law and Love......Page 134
The Paradox of Perestroika......Page 145
The Empty Cage......Page 152
The Premonition of Civil War......Page 158
Bespredel......Page 162
The Barge Hauler's Aporia......Page 169
A Prayer for the Irreparable......Page 178
October 1993......Page 186
Emptiness All Around......Page 191
How to Play with Lost Objects......Page 198
From Identity to Habit......Page 205
The Anomie of Law......Page 213
Cratocracy......Page 218
As Not......Page 224
The Secret Wisdom of the Dancing Girls......Page 232
Free time and the Politics of Decreation......Page 239
The Generic Community......Page 245
Being in Love......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 260
Notes......Page 264
Appendix......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 270
F......Page 278
M......Page 279
S......Page 280
Z......Page 281