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81. Publications & Writing
The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of 'socialism with a human face.' Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of televi…
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82. Publications & Writing
The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies
What do ordinary citizens in developing countries think about free markets? Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition on unwilling workers in developing nations, concluding that the recent rise of the Latin American left constitutes a popular backlash against the m…
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83. Publications & Writing
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
Written by 2004 IDRF Fellow Guy Geltner, The Medieval Prison rewrites penal history and reveals that medieval society did not have a “persecuting mentality” but in fact was more nuanced in defining and dealing with its marginal elements than is commonly recognized. Geltner ca…
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84. Publications & Writing
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
In this book, 1997 IDRF Fellow Flagg Miller uses the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences to show how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform and for morally evaluating political liberalism. From the 1940s onward, a new class of political activists…
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85. Publications & Writing
The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Ur…
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86. Publications & Writing
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
…2001 IDRF Fellow Scott Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history — the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans — and assessing the future likelihood of such ev…
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87. Publications & Writing
The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth
Through her accounts as a first-hand observer in the Black Earth region, 1998 IDRF Fellow Allina-Pisano addresses some of the most fundamental assumptions underlining both theories and assessments of the political economy of post-communist transitions. As the Soviet Empire lay in…
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88. Publications & Writing
The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957
The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals…
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89. Publications & Writing
The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
Written by 2001 IDRF Fellow Maxim Waldstein, this book examines the history of Yuri Lotman’s Tartu (or Moscow-Tartu) School of Semiotics, which was active in the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1980s. Combining a comparative perspective on the Tartu paradigm with close attention to i…
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90. Publications & Writing
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Free Software is a set of practices dedicated to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. In Two Bits, 1999 IDRF Fellow Kelty draws upon ethnographic research conducted in a variety of venuesâ…
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