URSUS SOVIETICUS
URSUS SOVIETICUS
Author(s): R. BirdSubject(s): Social Sciences, Russian Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: image; the human; Dem'ian Bednyi; Andrei Platonov; Aleksandr Medvedkin; Kornei Chukovsky; «The Stolen Sun»;
Summary/Abstract: What do we learn from thinking about the USSR through its near anagram: the bear (ursus in Latin)? Central to the Soviet project was liberation from the image, understood as the capture of a being, its full identification and taming. Based on Kornei Chukovsky's Stolen Sun, the author argues that the Soviet bear's role is, by making nature possible again, to bring new humanity into visibility.
Journal: Лабиринт. Журнал социально-гуманитарных исследований
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 81-86
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Russian