@article{113256,
  author = {Serguei Alex. Oushakine},
  title = {Totality Decomposed: Objectalizing Late Socialism in Post-Soviet Biochronicles},
  abstract = { Through an analysis of two important visual projects of the late 1990s{\textemdash}Manskii{\textquoteright}s Chronicles and Dzhanik Faiziev and Leonid Parfenov{\textquoteright}s forty-three-episode series~ Lately (1997{\textendash}2004){\textemdash}I intend to show how these filmmakers decompose the visual legacy of monolithic and totalizing late socialism. In these documentaries, the last three decades of the USSR emerge as a {\textquotedblleft}tangible time{\textquotedblright}, to use Shklovskii{\textquoteright}s term. Each project achieves a certain degree of temporal and spatial granularity of the period by breaking late Soviet history into material units of meaningful analytic and everyday experience. Autonomous and usually disconnected, these kino-things of sorts bring with them no coherent story. In fact, through their concreteness, they decontextualize identities and destabilize dominant narratives of socialism while simultaneously producing a grounding effect of mnemonic and historical palpability. },
  year = {2010},
  journal = {The Russian Review},
  volume = {69},
  pages = {638-669},
  language = {eng},
}