Beyond Homo Sovieticus: Soviet identity as a weapon of mass deconstruction
For decades, the idea of Homo Sovieticus dwelled in the imaginaries of people both east and west of the iron curtain. In the USSR, it was both a theoretical concept and a bright vision of the present and of the future, a cosmopolitan supra-national building project that was supposed to bring about a superior form of human existence, one in which true commitment to the Soviet cause would have led to untold Communist bounty.
September 5, 2017 - Michael Gentile and Dmytro Potekhin