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Acknowledgements ix
Preface x
1 Universal Postcommunism: Kojève and Agamben on the End of History 1
To Uryupinsk 1
The End of History and the Study of Postcommunism 3
The Workless Slave 9
Profane Messianism 14
Subtractive Negation 18
The Intellectual 22
Towards a Post-historical Ethos 28
2 A Time Like No Other: Russian Politics after the End of History 38
The Long Farewell to the 1990s 38
Timelessness, Chronos and Kairos 40
The Lingering of the Political 45
The End of Time and the Time of the End 50
Inoperosity 54
Postcommunist Playland 59
Post-transitionalism and its Double 63
The Realm of Pure Synchrony 69
Why Russia No Longer Celebrates November 7 75
The Legacy of Alexander Rutskoi 79
Poetry and Politics in the Ethics of Postcommunism 84
3 The Janitor Generation: The Ethics of Disengagement in the Late-Soviet Period 89
The Refusal of Work in Soviet Counter-Culture 89
Ivanov, or Beside the System 97
What is a Pure Performative? 101
Para-Soviet Praxis 107
Identity and Potentiality in Para-Soviet Milieus 112
Between Law and Love 119
The Paradox of Perestroika 130
4 From a Shining Void: The Dialectic of Bespredel in Postcommunist Social Praxis 137
The Empty Cage 137
The Premonition of Civil War 143
Bespredel 147
The Barge Hauler's Aporia 154
A Prayer for the Irreparable 163
October 1993 171
Emptiness All Around 176
How to Play with Lost Objects 183
From Identity to Habit 190
5 The Invisible Victory: Experimentum Linguae and the Appropriation of Anomie 198
The Anomie of Law 198
Cratocracy 203
As Not 209
The Secret Wisdom of the Dancing Girls 217
Free time and the Politics ofDecreation 224
The Generic Community 230
Being in Love 236
Conclusion 245
Notes 249
Appendix 253
Bibliography 255
Index 263
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