Beyond Glasnost
Subtitle: The Post-Totalitarian Mind
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780226300986
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Social Science; Performing Arts; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; 20th century; Communism and culture; Europe, Eastern; Intellectual life; Politics and culture
First sentence: CONSIDER A WORLD where the publicly spoken word and the published written word have a single, official set of meanings, sanctioned by the state; where political authority is legitimated through disbelief; where contact between individuals is regularly qualified by political suspicion and paranoia; and where the norms of daily life are constantly subject to official revision.