Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2018, no. 14

A Review of SERGUEI OUSHAKINE, ALEXEY GOLUBEV (EDS.), XX VEK: PISMA VOYNY. ANTOLOGIYA VOENNOY KORRESPONDENTSII [20TH CENTURY: WAR LETTERS. ANTHOLOGY OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016, 832 pp.

Fyodor Nicolai
Minin University
1 Ulyanova Str., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
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Abstract: The review is devoted to the anthology of war correspondence ‘20th Century: War Letters’ published under the editorship of Serguei Oushakine and Alexey Golubev and including both letters of Russian / Soviet soldiers and officers (from the Boer War to the conflictin the North Caucasus) and analytical articles that deal with the problems of front-line everyday life. The theoretical concept of the authors and editors of the collection is trying to combine the structural analysis of the epistolary narrative and the phenomenological description of the tactics of subjectivation of war experience.

Keywords: war letters, narrative, cultural memory, affect, theory of practices, tactics of subjectivation.

To cite: Nicolai F., ‘A Review of Serguei Oushakine, Alexey Golubev (eds.), XX vek: pisma voyny. Antologiya voennoy korrespondentsii [20th Century: War Letters. Anthology of War Correspondence]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016, 832 pp.’, Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2018, no. 14, pp. 231–239.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8927-2018-14-14-231-239

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/eng014/nicolai.pdf