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KILLING CULTURE TWO:
TOWARD AN ANATOMY OF CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION
IN EARLY SOVIET RUSSIA, 1920s–1930s
by
Christopher James Gilman
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Christopher James Gilman
Object Description
| Title | Killing culture two: toward an anatomy of cultural transformation in early Soviet Russia, 1920s-1930s |
| Author | Gilman, Christopher James |
| Author email | gilman.chris@gmail.com; durstgilman@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Slavic Languages & Literatures |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-12-07 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-03-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Zholkovsky, Alexander |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Levitt, Marcus Anderson, Steve |
| Abstract | Wholesale changes in Soviet Russian culture during the 1920s and 1930s have most commonly been characterized as symptomatic of a social transformation in society caused by a political agent, such as Stalin, or force, such as class struggle. An alternative model for understanding cultural transformation during this period and others in Russian and Soviet history is provided by Vladimir Paperny in Kul’tura dva. Paperny applies semiotic theory and a structure of binary pairings to describe the history of early Soviet culture as the alternation of two opposing systems of meaning, what he calls “Culture One” and “Culture Two.”; The present work represents an effort to update Paperny’s original thesis by revisiting his theoretical premises from an historical perspective, and supplementing them with findings from contemporary and recent research in the cognitive sciences. The semiotic interpretive model is called into question as an objective metadescription because it derives from the same socio- historical circumstances as the cultural phenomena to which it is applied. Instead, both culture and theory are treated in mutual interaction, and a new thesis is forwarded to account for their relationship. The transformation in early Soviet Culture that Paperny describes in semiotic terms as binary oppositions finds its cause in the chiastic reversal of dominance or “flip” between two complementary and mutually inhibitive patterns of cognition associated in individuals with left hemisphere and right hemisphere brain activity. The analysis focuses on transformative elements used in the culture to trigger a switch in cognitive patterns individually and thereby effect a general transformation in disseminated culture collectively. It contrasts the notions of byt (being, existence) and veshch’ (thing), which were perceived by intellectuals as endemic of socio-cultural inertia among the general population, to ostensive representations and demonstrations of killing, which were deployed as an emotional motivating force for change. |
| Keyword | Russia; Soviet Union; Soviet History; 1920s; 1930s; Culture Two; Paperny; Jakobson; Maiakovskii; Stalin; cultural transformation; ostension; semiotics; binary opposition; episteme; concentric; cognitive science; brain hemispheres; asymmetry; killing; suicide; bullfighting; anatomy; dissection; part-whole relations; veshch; thing |
| Geographic subject (country) | Russia |
| Coverage date | 1920/1939 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3687 |
| Rights | Gilman, Christopher James |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Gilman-4249 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Gilman-4249.pdf |
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| Full text | KILLING CULTURE TWO: TOWARD AN ANATOMY OF CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN EARLY SOVIET RUSSIA, 1920s–1930s by Christopher James Gilman A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Christopher James Gilman |
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