Table of Contents

Prologue
1. On Riding Bicycles and Human Judgement
2. Homo Sovieticus as Eastern European Dissent
3. Homo Sovieticus as Soviet Dissent
4. Homo Sovieticus as a Perestroika Child
5. Homo Sovieticus as Post-Soviet Empathy
6. Homo Post-Sovieticus as a Fight for the Continent
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

The first book-length exploration of the concept of homo sovieticus and its history.

About the Author

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is Reader in Russian Politics at King’s College London (King’s Russia Institute), UK. She is the author of Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia (2011) and the co-editor, along with Neringa Klumbyte, of Soviet Society In The Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985 (2012).

Reviews

A very timely book about major attempts to analyse Soviet-Russian identity before and after the collapse of the USSR. Combining methodological clarity with empathy and erudition, the author rejects a reductionist ‘totalitarian’ approach in favour of nuanced observation. A useful corrective to any current analysis of Russia, in peace and at war.
*Vladislav Zubok, Professor of History, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK*

[The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’] does an excellent job at historicizing the idea of the Homo Sovieticus as a human type and a set of core traits associated with a political system. Sharafutdinova’s book is a powerful warning to how dangerous the feeling of being “on the right side of history” can be for any thinker.
*H-Net Reviews*

The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’ is a valuable contribution to a growing body of literature on Soviet and
post-Soviet subjectivity.
*Europe-Asia Studies*