The Culture of Complaint: Approaches to Complaining in Russia—An Overview
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This article offers an overview of the literature and methodological attitudes to the “culture of complaint.” Complaining is a popular form of communication in present-day Russian society. It has received the attention of scholars of the Soviet period in Russian history as a specific mass form of popular political participation and relationship with the authorities. However, the reasons for and origins of mass complaining need further research. This article offers an analysis of possible developments in such research with specific focus on gender, emotional regimes of complaint, and the comparative analysis of cultures of complaint. In English.
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Culture of Complaint, Russia, Attitudes to Complaining, Historiography
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Marianna Muravyeva, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gypsy lane, Tonge building OX3 0BP, Oxford, UK; e-mail: muravyevam@gmail.com
Marianna Muravyeva is a Professor and Marie Curie senior research fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her research focuses on the history of crime, legal history, gender history, and history of sexuality in early modern Europe. She has published extensively, including edited volumes Gender in Late medieval and Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2013); Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and Violence in the Modern State (London and New York: Routledge, 2012); Bytovoe nasilie v istorii rossiiskoi povsednevnosti [Domestic violence in the history of Russian everyday life] (St. Petersburg: EU Press, 2012); and recent articles such as ‘Bytovukha: Family Violence in Soviet Russia,’ Aspasia 8 (2014): 90-124.
Марианна Георгиевна Муравьева является профессором и ведущим исследователем в рамкам программы Мари Кюри в университете Оксфорд Брукс, Великобритания. Ее исследовательские интеерсы включают историю преступности, историю права. гендерную и женскую историю, историю сексуальности в европе раннего нового и нового времени. Последние публикации: Gender in Late medieval and Early Modern Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2013); Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and Violence in the Modern State (London and New York: Routledge, 2012); Бытовое насилие в истории российской повседневности (СПб.: Изд-во европейского университета, 2012); ‘Bytovukha: Family Violence in Soviet Russia,’Aspasia 8 (2014): 90-124.