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Stalin's Soviet Monastery - A New Interpretation of Russian Politics (Paperback, New edition)
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Stalin's Soviet Monastery - A New Interpretation of Russian Politics (Paperback, New edition)
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In Stalin's Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates
innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to
develop a holistic analysis of Russian society that includes a
theoretically based rationale for ignoring ideology in favor of
cultural dynamics. While the young Iosif Djugashvili, later known
as Joseph Stalin, was studying to be a priest in an Orthodox
seminary, he took on the role that defined his political career,
that of a sadistic elder who imposed fiendish vows of poverty,
chastity, and obedience on hapless Soviet citizens. As an exercise
in historical anthropology, Stalin's Soviet Monastery emphasizes
the role of myth and ritual in Russia, a society with strong
residual orality. The imitation of Christ is called
passion-suffering, a practice that helps to explain the widespread
acquiescence to Stalin's practices. Stalin was intensely interested
in literature, and his favorite author was Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Some
passages in Dostoyevsky's work anticipate key features of
Stalinism. An Afterword discusses the development of Russian
society after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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