This dissertation examines conceptions of everyday life in first-person narratives by Czech and Russian authors from the 1970s. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 marked the end of the public project of reforming socialism from above, through government initiative. Many writers responded by trying to re-invent themselves in everyday life, which potentially offered a more authentic alternative to the bankrupt ideology of the public sphere. Ultimately, my chosen authors were skeptical about this authenticity, but they likewise remained alive to its promise, intrigued by the oppositional charge that everyday life seemed to store. In part one, Power, I look at Vaclav Havel's vision, in The Power of the Powerless, of everyday life ...
The chapter is an auto-duo-ethnographic exercise carried out by two scholars of life-writing, who gr...
180 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.Although the works vary in te...
This dissertation explores the early Soviet proliferation of the info-literary mode, which combined ...
This dissertation examines conceptions of everyday life in first-person narratives by Czech and Russ...
This dissertation represents the first comparative study of works by the 'writers of the Changes', t...
Autofictions and memoirs about growing up in late socialism have proliferated in Czech as well as in...
Since the fall of communism in 1989 and 1990/91 literature has dealt with this epochal societal chan...
Intense moments of political and ideological change in Eastern Europe – namely the Russian Revolutio...
This work is an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the 1960s through an in-depth analysis of ...
In modern Russian history, the concept of Europe has served as a main reference point in the formati...
This chapter elaborates the following problem: how did the economies of communist states in XX centu...
In the Soviet Union we see yet another aspect of society which severely restricted the introspection...
This article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czecho...
This study compares German memory of life in the German Democratic Republic with Russian memory of l...
This bachelor thesis deals with the depiction of everyday life in Teréza Nováková's short stories Úl...
The chapter is an auto-duo-ethnographic exercise carried out by two scholars of life-writing, who gr...
180 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.Although the works vary in te...
This dissertation explores the early Soviet proliferation of the info-literary mode, which combined ...
This dissertation examines conceptions of everyday life in first-person narratives by Czech and Russ...
This dissertation represents the first comparative study of works by the 'writers of the Changes', t...
Autofictions and memoirs about growing up in late socialism have proliferated in Czech as well as in...
Since the fall of communism in 1989 and 1990/91 literature has dealt with this epochal societal chan...
Intense moments of political and ideological change in Eastern Europe – namely the Russian Revolutio...
This work is an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the 1960s through an in-depth analysis of ...
In modern Russian history, the concept of Europe has served as a main reference point in the formati...
This chapter elaborates the following problem: how did the economies of communist states in XX centu...
In the Soviet Union we see yet another aspect of society which severely restricted the introspection...
This article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czecho...
This study compares German memory of life in the German Democratic Republic with Russian memory of l...
This bachelor thesis deals with the depiction of everyday life in Teréza Nováková's short stories Úl...
The chapter is an auto-duo-ethnographic exercise carried out by two scholars of life-writing, who gr...
180 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.Although the works vary in te...
This dissertation explores the early Soviet proliferation of the info-literary mode, which combined ...