The cynical reason of late socialism: Power, pretense, and the anekdot

Public Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-188

  Yurchak, Alexei ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1215/08992363-9-2-161     Document Type: Review

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