Background
Boym, Svetlana was born on April 29, 1959 in Leningrad, Russia. Daughter of Yury Isaevich and Musa (Davidovna) Goldberg. came to the United States, 1981.
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Boym, Svetlana (1995) Paperback
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Svetlana Boym (21-Apr-1995) Paperback
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
( What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship bet...)
What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence? Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess their failure to get properly inside Russia, to understand its "doublespeak." Boym is a unique guide. A member of the last Soviet Generation, the Russian equivalent of our Generation X, she grew up in Leningrad and has lived in the West for the past thirteen years. Her book provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and everywhere stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, Boym conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality. Armed with a Dictionary of Untranslatable Terms, we step around Uncle Fedia asleep in the hall, surrounded by a puddle of urine, and enter the Communal Apartment, the central exhibit of the book. It is the ruin of the communal utopia and a unique institution of Soviet daily life; a model Soviet home and a breeding ground for grassroots informants. Here, privacy is forbidden; here the inhabitants defiantly treasure their bits of "domestic trash," targets of ideological campaigns for the transformation (perestroika) of everyday life. Against the Russian and Soviet myths of national destiny, the trivial, the ordinary, even the trashy, take on a utopian dimension. Boym studies Russian culture in a broad sense of the word; she ranges from nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual thought to art and popular culture. With her we go walking in Moscow and Leningrad, eavesdrop on domestic life, and discover jokes, films, and TV programs. Boym then reflects on the 1991 coup that marked the end of the Soviet Union and evoked fin de siècle apocalyptic visions. The book ends with a poignant reflection on the nature of communal utopia and nostalgia, on homesickness and the sickness of being home.
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Svetlana Boym
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Bachelor, Pedagogical Institute, Leningrad, 1980; Master of Arts, Boston University, 1983; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1988.
Career
Instructor language, Boston University, 1981-1983; from instructor to assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1993; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, since 1993.
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
( What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship bet...)
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
(Book by Boym, Svetlana)
- Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Boym, Svetlana (1995) Paperback
- Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Svetlana Boym (1995-01-23)
- (Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia) Author: Svetlana Boym published on (April, 1995)
- Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Svetlana Boym (21-Apr-1995) Paperback
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
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Member Modern Language Association (chair Executive Committee Division Slavic and Eastern European Lits.), European University of St. Petersburg Advisory Board, Harvard Faculty Council.
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1980
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1988
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1981 - 1983
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1984 - 1993
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Grantee International Research & Exchanges Board, 1989, 92. Fellow Harvard for Graduate Women, 1987, Jack Levine in Comparative Literature, 1986. Recipient Clark Fund Harvard University, 1993, Modern Language Association Travel award, 1993.Grantee International Research & Exchanges Board, 1989, 92. Fellow Harvard for Graduate Women, 1987, Jack Levine in Comparative Literature, 1986. Recipient Clark Fund Harvard University, 1993, Modern Language Association Travel award, 1993.