The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism

Paretskaya, Anna

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“…Russian capitalism was contrasted against the Western variety because of the "pervasiveness of barter" (King, 2002), domination of trade and consumption (Burawoy, 1997), and the lack of a system that could "systematically promote the accumulation of capital" (Lane, 2000). Paretskaya (2010) suggests that capitalism is not only an economic organization, but a broader cultural system, in the same way as is Quantitative and qualitative IC spectrum research on Russia appears to differ in conclusion, suggesting that a single IC scale is over-simplistic. Quantitative research using Hofstede's cultural dimensions questionnaire, collected after the collapse of the Soviet Union, typically portrays Russia as having low to moderate levels of individualism (Welsh et al 1993;Bollinger 1994;Veiga et al 1995;Puffer & Shekshnia, 1996;Bradley 1999).…”

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“…Russian capitalism was contrasted against the Western variety because of the “pervasiveness of barter” (King, 2002), domination of trade and consumption (Burawoy, 1997), and the lack of a system that could “systematically promote the accumulation of capital” (Lane, 2000). Paretskaya (2010) suggests that capitalism is not only an economic organization but also a broader cultural system, in the same way as is communism. Thus, capitalism can be understood as a cult of individualism, where the individual and self-realization is the focus of the new ideal of life.…”

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“…we, us). Also, a qualitative study by Paretskaya (2010) of Soviet Communist Party discourse between 1970-1986 found movement towards individuality, self-expression, and consumerism in three popular newspapers. Interestingly, this change precedes the economic changes during the period of perestroika (1986-90).…”

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Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia

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2016

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Collectivism and individualism are commonly used to delineate societies that differ in their cultural values and patterns of social behaviour, prioritising the relative importance of the group and the individual, respectively. Collectivist and individualist expression is likely to be intricately linked with the political and economic history of a society. Scholars have proposed mechanisms for both positive and negative correlations between economic growth and a culture of either individualism or collectivism. Here, we consider these relationships across the dramatic history of twentieth and early twenty-first century Russia , spanning the late Russian Empire, the communist state and the growth of capitalism. We sample Russian speakers to identify common Russian words expressing individualism or collectivism, and examine the changing frequencies of these terms in Russian publications collected in Google's nGrams corpus. We correlate normalised individualism and collectivism expression against published estimates of economic growth (GDP and NMP) available between 1961-1995, finding high collectivist expression and economic growth rate followed by the correlated decline of both prior to the end of Soviet system. Temporal trends in the published expression of individualism and collectivism, in addition to their correlations with estimated economic growth rates, are examined in relation to the change in economic and political structures, ideology and public discourse.We also compare our sampled Russian-language terms for individualism and collectivism with Twenge et al.'s (2012) equivalent collection from American-English speakers.3

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Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia

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2016

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“…Examining the place of the individual in socialist society, historians have pointed to the dynamic tensions surrounding models of socialist personhood where, on the one hand, the collective was supposed to take precedence over individual needs, while, on the other, exceptional individual workers were mythologized as superhuman figures such as potato-field heroines or tractor-operator heroes (eg, Bridger, 2001). Commenting on the contradictions of life and work under socialism, Anna Paretskaya (2010) and Martha Lampland (1995), among others, have suggested that the emphasis on individual achievement promoted by this particular brand of party-state politics ushered in paradoxical consequences of atomized, self-actualizing individualism and commodified labor.…”

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“…The educational aspect of farming on subsidiary farms was also celebrated in these official accounts, as younger generations were thought to be acquiring valuable agricultural knowledge and personal characteristics (Kalinkin, 1981, page 5;Ostrovskii, 1988, page 17;Shmelev, 1971, page 8). Paradoxically, by accepting the mutual constituency of the work on collective and subsidiary farms in the socialist rural economy, the socialist state transformed itself from the ideological advocate of collectivism to a state ruled by the 'cult of individualism' (Paretskaya, 2010). This in turn suggests that everyday forms of self-reliance were themselves deeply implicated in building the socialist economy, feeding industrialization, and reproducing the Soviet state.…”

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Self-Reliance beyond Neoliberalism: Rethinking Autonomy at the Edges of Empire

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Mincytė

2014

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Across scholarly and popular accounts, self-reliance is often interpreted as either the embodiment of individual entrepreneurialism, as celebrated by neoliberal designs, or the basis for communitarian localism, increasingly imagined as central to environmental and social sustainability. In both cases, self-reliance is framed as an antidote to the failures of larger state institutions or market economies. This paper offers a different framework for understanding self-reliance by linking insights drawn from agrarian studies to current debates on alternative economies. Through an examination of the social worlds of semisubsistence producers in peripheral zones in the Global North, we show how everyday forms of self-reliance are mutually constituted with states and markets, particularly through interactions with labor institutions and hybrid property regimes linking individual and collective interests. We draw on empirical data from two ethnographic case studies connected by a shared colonial history and continuing local mythologies of frontier self-sufficiency: salmon fisheries in rural Alaska in the US, and agrofood economies in socialist and postsocialist Lithuania. In each site we find that although local expressions of self-reliance diverge in critical respects from neoliberal visions, these forms of everyday autonomy are nevertheless enlisted to promote market liberalization, ultimately threatening the very conditions that have long sustained semisubsistence producers' self-reliance in the first place.

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Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach

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Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers’ health in many countries, calling for theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we present a novel neoclassical sociological synthesis of the lived experience of deindustrialization. We conceptualize industry as a social institution whose disintegration has widespread implications for the social fabric. Combining Durkheimian and Marxian categories, we show that deindustrialization generates ruptures in economic production, which entail job and income loss, increased exploitation, social inequality, and the disruption of services. These ruptures spill over to the field of social reproduction, generating material deprivation, job strain, fatalism, increased domestic workload, anomie, community disintegration, and alienation. These ruptures in social reproduction are sources of psychosocial stress, through which deindustrialization gets embodied as ill health and dysfunctional health behavior. We substantiate this framework through the extensive qualitative thematic analysis of 82 life history interviews in Hungary’s rust belt.

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The Soviet Communist Party and the Other Spirit of Capitalism

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Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia

Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia

Self-Reliance beyond Neoliberalism: Rethinking Autonomy at the Edges of Empire

Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach

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