Activity Type:
Lecture
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Presenter:
Benjamin Nathans
Date:
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
Baker/Porter Hall 246A
In the 1970s, a new genre of samizdat emerged in the Soviet Union: the dissident conduct manual, covering situations ranging from interrogations to apartment searches to interviews with psychiatrists. They spoke not to the age-old question "What is to be done?," but the existential "How should you conduct yourself?" What did self-respect require? Did interrogation rooms and psychiatric wards demand a distinct code of behaviour, a moral state of exception- or did they merely reproduce everyday Soviet reality in a heightened form?
UCIS Unit:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors:
Carnegie Mellon Department of History
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No