Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe

Bringing Together Important New Work By An International And Interdisciplinary Group Of Leading Scholars, Interpreting Emotions In Russia And Eastern Europe Approaches Emotions As A Phenomenon Complexly Intertwined With Society, Culture, Politics, And History. The Stories In This Book Involve Sensitive Aristocrats, Committed Revolutionaries, Aggressive Nationalists, Political Leaders, Female Victims Of Sexual Violence, Perpetrators And Victims Of Stalinist Terror, Citizens In The Former Yugoslavia In The Wake Of War, Workers In Post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani Gypsy Musicians, And Veterans Of The Afghan And Chechen Wars. These Essays Explore Emotional Perception And Expression Not Only As Private, Inward Feeling But Also As A Way Of Interpreting And Judging A Troubled World, Acting In It, And Perhaps Changing It. Essential Reading For Those Interested In New Perspectives On The Study Of Russia And Eastern Europe, Past And Present, This Volume Will Appeal To Scholars Across The Social Sciences And Humanities Who Are Seeking New And Deeper Approaches To Understanding Human Experience, Thought, And Feeling. The Queen Of Lofty Thoughts : The Cult Of Melancholy In Russian Sentimentalism / Ilya Vinitsky -- Leaving Your Family In 1797 : Two Identities Of Mikhail Muravʹev / Andrei Zorin -- Radicals And Feelings : The 1860s / Victoria Frede -- Shame And Modern Subjectivities : The Rape Of Elizaveta Cheremnova / Alexandra Oberländer -- Thinking About Feelings : Affective Dispositions And Emotional Ties In Imperial Russia And The Ottoman Empire / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Bolsheviks And Emotional Hermeneutics : The Great Purges, Bukharin, And The February-march Plenum Of 1937 / Glennys Young -- Breaking The Silence : Iurii Bondarev's Quietness Between The Sincerity And Civic Emotion Of The Thaw / Polly Jones -- Emplaced And Displaced : Theorizing The Emotions Of Space In The Former Yugoslavia / Judith Pintar -- A Genealogy Of Working-class Anger : History, Emotions, And Political Economy In Romania's Jiu Valley / Jack Friedman -- Music, Emotion, And The Other : Balkan Roma And The Negotiation Of Exoticism / Carol Silverman -- Emotional Blueprints : War Songs As An Affective Medium / Serguei Alex. Oushakine. Edited By Mark D. Steinberg And Valeria Sobol. Papers From A Conference Held At University Of Illinois, Urbana-champaign, In Summer 2008. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 277-280) And Index.