「这些叙事是所有人都能看得清楚的部分。但这里的要点不是叙事本身，而是：这个叙事是给谁设计的？」
🧬《关于塔克卡尔森的普京采访: “能让你恐惧的那部分”》
https://www.patreon.com/posts/zhuan-tie-guan-98270895
#俄罗斯 #极右翼 #美国 #孤立主义 #苏联 #地缘政治 #普京 #塔克卡尔森 #去全球化 #内卷 #经济 #Russia #FarRight #USA #Isolationism #SovietUnion #Geopolitics #Putin #Deglobalization #Involution #Economy
"How did #SovietAuthors treat the #Holocaust? How did it differ from work elsewhere? And what are some of the challenges translating these works into English?"
#HarrietMurav and #SashaSenderovich discuss the new collection of #shortStories they edited and translated, #InTheShadowOfTheHolocaust: Short Fiction by #JewishWriters from the #SovietUnion
https://www.euraknot.org/soviet-holocaust-literature/
#SovietJews #JewishHistory #WWII #SovietLiterature #HolocaustLiterature #books @bookstodon
#Euraknot's really interesting talk w/ #PietroShakarian about his book #AnastasMikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in #Khrushchev's Kremlin.
"How did he push for #destalinization after the leader’s death in 1953, particularly on #SovietNationalityPolicy? Shakarian tells us that in the end, #Mikoyan was more than a survivor. He was a critical player in shaping the post-Stalinist #SovietUnion."
https://www.euraknot.org/anastas-mikoyan/
#SovietHistory #SovietArmenia #Armenia #books #biographies @bookstodon
About a hundred years ago, this is what "left" looked like through the Overton window. It didn't work at its extreme, but neither does the extreme right.
Y’all… Soviet history is crazy.
Today I learned that because literature was so heavily censored, people would illegally print banned texts by typing them on home typewriter machines and then distribute them.
AND THE COOL PART is that to try and stop them, the Soviet government had restricted production of typewriters, assigning each machine a unique serial number AND a specific signature of defects (tilted letters, lighter or heavier pressure letters, etc.), the government would store the keys for which typographical signature corresponded to which machine and whom it was sold to.
So what did the people do in response? Split typing a single text up across multiple people’s machines and shuffling pages; OR fixing up some letters by hand with a pen.
Crazy cool!!!!
