Автор: Anna Grebennikova
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The Victim Gets It All: Historian Konstantin Pakhlyuk on the Construction of Historical Memory and the “Genocide of the Soviet People”
The latest censorship scandal in Russia involves historian and political scientist Konstantin Pakhlyuk’s book “In Search of Russian Antiquity”, which was removed from the website of the publishing house “Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye” following a complaint by the Orthodox activist group “Sorok Sorokov”. The group accused Pakhlyuk of criticizing the Soviet Army in his social media…
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And Bakhtin could not cover it up. the “impure turn” taken by anthropologists from the two capitals could not be swept under the carpet of censorship
Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin explored carnival and laughter culture in the stagnant years of the late Soviet Union and called such topics “material-bodily bottom. Half a century later, anthropologists held a conference about excrement in St Petersburg entitled Anthropopology: Brown Studies and the Unclean Turn.
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Infofield of battle: how and where propagandists are trained in Russian universities today
Since September 1, a number of Russian universities have begun training “information warfare specialists”. Such programs were “tested” even before the full-scale invasion, but this year there have been significantly more of them. T-invariant found out which universities have such programs and who will teach students propaganda.
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Sociologist Vladimir Zvonovsky: “Those who support Putin cannot really explain his decisions”
This summer, Vladimir Zvonovsky and Alexander Khodykin published a book “Russian Public Opinion in the Conditions of Military Conflict.” T-invariant spoke with Doctor of Sociological Sciences Vladimir Zvonovsky about the results of the study.