The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova TOBIE MATHEW miserable figure

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in which no one power dominates

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На английском и на русском

from the collapse of the Russian empire to the rise and fall of the USSR and on to the development in Ukraine of a democratic politics

The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova TOBIE MATHEW miserable figureAlmost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus or the Soviet man is understood to be a double thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which