The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova hurst She visited cities and landscapes

She visited cities and landscapes associated with the books in the library – Chekhov

who saw them less as criminals than as diseased persons potentially cured by drug therapy or transsexual surgery

Mühling shows the peoples and places of this region are much like the sea around which they converge: restless

looking at questions of motivation and commitment

Mixing absurdity and erudition

The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova hurst She visited cities and landscapesAlmost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus or the Soviet man is understood to be a double thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which