Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project

Olga Baysha is assistant professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Baysha's point is not simply that 'the intellectuals' were deluded or cynical tools and that Soviet citizens were misled and taken advantage of. . . .more important is her argument that what took place here was a form of collective communicative disorientation.

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONPART I. MODERNITY AND MYTHCHAPTER 1. Modernity and Its ProjectsModernity, Colonization, and GlobalizationMultiple Modernities and Cultural HybridizationModernization through Internal ColonizationThe Myth of EnlightenmentCHAPTER 2. Deconstructing Mythologies Roland Barthes’s MythologiesThe Schizophrenia of the NetworkThe Idea of FramingFrame Analysis of Modernization Myths PART II. SOVIET MODERNITY CHAPTER 3. The Rise and Fall of an Alternative ProjectGreat TransformationStagnation and Gorbachev ReformsCHAPTER 4. The Discourses of PerestroikaDemocracyMarketThe United StatesPART III. THE VERNACULAR VS. THE ELITE On MethodologyCHAPTER 5. Mythologizing DemocracyIntellectual Mythology: The Highway of CivilizationVernacular Mythology: Power to the People!CHAPTER 6. Mythologizing the MarketIntellectual Mythology: The invisible HandVernacular Mythology: Enriching Working PeopleCHAPTER 7. Mythologizing the United States: The Horn of PlentyPART IV. THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF PERESTROIKACHAPTER 8. The Twilight ZoneThe Spirit of HopelessnessWorld Risk SocietyThe Logic of Both / AndCHAPTER 9. Schizophrenia as a Communicative Disorder Double BindNetwork Schizophrenia and the Public SphereCHAPTER 10. Personal ReflectionsCONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYPrimary Sources: Media ArticlesSecondary SourcesAPPENDIX A. Research DesignData CollectingCodingAPPENDIX B. Statistical Results