Papers from a conference held at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in summer 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"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.
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