Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe

Mark D. Steinberg, Valeria Sobol, Mark D. Steinberg, Valeria Sobol

• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Year: 2011
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781609090234
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

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.

Index

Boldface indicates principal treatment of a topic.

1840s. See generation of 1840s

1860s. See Russian radicals of 1860s

1989. See postsocialism; revolution of 1989

Abdul Hamid II (Ottoman sultan), 121

abstraction, 31, 64, 251; rejected by 1860s radicals, 66, 69, 71

Abu-Lughod, Lila, 5, 225, 226

acoustic gesture, 254–55, 273n18

Adevărul, 212

Adorno, Theodor, 250

affect: defined, 104–6; and event coding, 44; shame defined as, 95, 98n14

affection, 27, 111, 113, 183

affective communities, 12, 109–10, 111. See also emotional communities

affective disposition, 10; and 1860s radicals, 62, 63, 66, 67–68, 70, 73; and Communist hermeneutics of soul, 129, 137, 140, 146n6; defined, 105–6; and genocide, 110, 117, 123

affective links. See affective ties

affective medium: songs as, 250, 272. See also affective ties

affective orientation, 106

affective states: defined, 105–6; importance to 1860s radicals, 62, 63, 65, 66, 71, 80n35; radicals criticize manipulation of, 9, 67–68, 78n19; radicals rank according to usefulness, 73–74

affective ties: as basis for nation, 12–13, 108–10, 111; Communist control of, 206; created through song, 256, 263, 272; and place attachment, 178, 186, 187; Russian monarchy fails to create, 13, 110, 116, 123

affective turn, 3, 4, 102, 123n1, 129, 144

Afghan War, 11, 15, 252fig, 256, 258, 267, 276n62; and Altai Veterans’ ceremony, 251–53; song connects to other wars, 271

Agamben, Giorgio, 95–96, 101n71

Age of Melancholy, 19, 24, 39n6

Age of Reason, 14, 23, 39

agitaţie, 205, 206

agitation trials, 131, 132

Ahmed, Sara, 5, 11, 98n13, 99n32

Akhmatova, Anna, 158

Aksakov, Konstantin, 114

Albanians, 122, 182, 183; and conflicting claims over Kosovo, 184–87; in relation to Janjevci, 188

Alexander I (Tsar of Russia), 49, 53, 58, 59, 112, 113

Alexander II (Tsar of Russia), 62–63

alienation, 13, 75, 210, 213

Almond, Gabriel, 106

Along the Main Street with an Orchestra (Po glavnoi ulitse s orkestrom; Todorovskii), 267

Altai Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, 263

Altai Veterans of the Afghan War, 251, 252fig

Althusser, Louis, 179

Amanet (Testament), 235

ambivalence, 9, 53, 169, 230, 236; toward postsocialist era, 217, 219

American Revolution, 107, 111

Anatolia, 116–19, 122

Ancient Hatreds theory, 181

Anderson, Benedict, 108, 114

anger, 201–21; and Bolshevik hierarchy of emotions, 131, 133; and class consciousness, 203–5, 206; as dangerous to state, 205–7; delegitimized, 11, 202, 212, 221; and de-Stalinization, 10, 15, 160, 161, 173n47; and entitlement, 12, 201–2, 209, 210, 213, 215, 219–21; and event coding, 45, 54; and hedging, 216, 219–20; and Ifaluk song, 221n3; in interviews with miners, 201–2, 213–16, 218–20; lack of words for, 213; of medieval peasants, 212; as nationalist, 208–9; and prolet-cultism, 209–10; and Roma, 226, 232; separates postsocialist intellectuals from workers, 13–14, 209–10, 221n3; and Soviet apology rituals, 141, 142–43; in Tishina, 157–58, 160–61, 163–65, 166–67. See also agitaţie; entitled anger; mineriade; strikes

anti-communist rhetoric, 209

anti-cosmopolitan campaign, 156, 164, 166

Antonovich, Maxim, 62; argues against “second self,” 65, 78n11; denounces Bazarov, 75, 81n64; and physiology, 65, 68, 78n9

anxiety, 9, 10, 51, 82, 91, 92, 207; and Central Committee rituals, 130, 131, 139, 143; and de-Stalinization, 15, 154, 169, 171; and Dubrovnik siege, 198; and genocide, 106, 117; of postsocialist workers, 15, 213, 215, 218; and pragmatic faith, 193; and shame, 95

apology rituals: Bukharin disobeys, 128, 130, 135, 141; defined, 134, 146n17; example of, 148n38; and hermeneutics of soul, 129, 131, 144; significance of, 142–45. See also performance; ritual

appraisals. See event appraisals

Arakcheev, Count Aleksei, 112

architecture: and theories of space, 178, 179–80. See also churches; statues; walls

Aristotle, 4, 37, 104, 109

Armenians, 13, 116–23, 19...

Table of contents

• cover
• title
• copyright
• contents
• Acknowledgments
• introduction
• chapter_one
• chapter_two
• chapter_three
• chapter_four
• chapter_five
• chapter_six
• chapter_seven
• chapter_eight
• chapter_nine
• chapter_ten
• chapter_eleven
• bibliography
• contributors
• index