Add to ORKGMikhail Mishin, a Soviet satirist, wrote that Russians recognize themselves in the famous fairy-tale character Ivan the Fool. He bides his time napping on the heated furnace and gets up only to undertake major heroic feats. Ivan the Fool might be a great hero, but he has no idea how to survive his everyday life. Everyday life, captured in the Russian word byt, is a more dangerous enemy to him than the multi-headed fire-spitting dragon. The everyday is Russia \u27s cultural monster. The nation might worship its heroes and their fabled ability to withstand hell or high water, but it also celebrates their impracticality and helplessness in the face of everyday life
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in the famous fairy-tale character Ivan the Fool. He bides his time napping on the heated furnace an...
believe that morality is not to be found in virtue, that is, not in reason, discipline, good manners...
This article considers two Russian social consciousness stereotypes interpreted in the press of 199 ...
In the modern Russian society everyday life approves itself as an important fragment of social reali...
This paper will present some results of my PhD research on the mainstream Russian émigré news magazi...
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