SLST 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noble Savage, Chinese Classics, Kremlinology

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Slavic Studies
• Course: SLST 364
• Professor: Olga Pressitch

Document Summary

After the second world war, the two camps: the socialist and the capitalist states. Defined by politics, but encoded though the cultural stereotype of the backward yet. Ideological difference represented through the familiar models of backward, violent and exotic. George f kennan, (cid:498)the sources of soviet conduct(cid:499) (cid:523)1947(cid:524) threatening (cid:498)other(cid:499) In cold-war american cinema the (cid:498)soviets(cid:499) dehumanized and portrayed as robotic (suggesting their communist ideological indoctrination as if their bodes have been (cid:498)seized(cid:499)(cid:524) and violent. As per larry wolff(cid:495)s )nventing eastern europe, for the west the world behind the (cid:498))ron curtain(cid:499) not a new cultural invention. Us diplomat george f. kennan; a classic text of western (cid:498)sovietology(cid:499) that formulated the american policy of (cid:498)containment(cid:499) (cid:523)of the alleged communist. Explained the (cid:498)psychology(cid:499) of soviet foreign policy through insecurity and the fear. Please watch for the references to russia as (cid:498)asiatic(cid:499) or (cid:498)oriental(cid:499).