By Daniil Kharms
ISBN-10: 1618113720
ISBN-13: 9781618113726
(Cultural Revolutions: Russia within the 20th Century)
In addition to his quite a few works in prose and poetry for either kids and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of many founders of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for many of his grownup existence. released for the 1st time lately in Russian, those notebooks offer an intimate examine the everyday life and struggles of 1 of the crucial figures of the literary avant-garde in Post-Revolutionary Leningrad. whereas Kharms’s tales were translated and released in English, those diaries represents a useful resource for English-language readers who, having already came upon Kharms in translation, wish to know about the existence and occasions of an avant-garde author within the first many years of Soviet energy.
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For example, a study by Götz Aly and Susanne Heim stressed the economic and demographic motivations behind the Holocaust, thus locating its impetus in the rationality and utilitarianism of capitalism previously emphasized by the intellectuals of the Frankfurt School. 25 Those first making the case for Stalinist modernity did not confront the fact that earlier arguments for Nazi modernity were controversial for containing a certain critique of modern civilization, which enabled illiberal atrocities.
Second, the post-Soviet engagement with modernity in the Russian and Soviet context by its very nature necessitated not associating modernity exclusively with liberal democracy and the market, themselves tightly linked to the history of the West. For the Russian/Soviet field, the embrace of modernity (and, by implication, multiple roads to modernity) meant that historians, whether by intention or not, began to operate on three macro-levels of analysis: the generic, the illiberal, and the civilizational.
26 In this sense, a tacit political implication lurked just below the surface in certain parts of the post-Soviet literature, the same one that in its day so exercised the German critics of Nazi modernity: if a regime so murderous is identified so closely with processes common to modernity in the West, then modernity itself in some sense bears the burden of the regime’s horrors, rather than factors or aberrations specific to the regime or country. ”27 Other writers argued not for illiberal comparisons but for the systemic, oppressive sameness of modernity regardless of the political or ideological order.
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