The Biopolitics of Stalinism : Ideology and Life in Soviet Socialism
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474410529
ISBN-13
9781474410526
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2016
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
648 grams
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24.60 x 16.30 x 2.60 cms
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Political science & theoryMarxism & CommunismSocialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
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Sergei Prozorov critically analyses Stalinism as a distinct strain of political theory, showing how it was oriented towards transforming, not protecting, life in accordance with the communist ideal. He engages with the theories of Foucault, Agamben, Esposito, Meillassoux, Henry and Malabou to critique conventional approaches to biopolitics.
Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities. In opposition to this, Stalinism was oriented more towards transforming life in accordance with the communist ideal, and less towards protecting it.
Sergei Prozorov reconstructs this rationality in the early Stalinist project of the Great Break (1928-32) and its subsequent modifications during High Stalinism. He then relocates the question of biopolitics down to the level of the subject, tracing the way the ''new Soviet person'' was to be produced in governmental practices and the role that violence and terror would play in this construction.
Sergei Prozorov reconstructs this rationality in the early Stalinist project of the Great Break (1928-32) and its subsequent modifications during High Stalinism. He then relocates the question of biopolitics down to the level of the subject, tracing the way the ''new Soviet person'' was to be produced in governmental practices and the role that violence and terror would play in this construction.
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