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Videos/Online Events by Anna Krylova
The format of the seminar assumes attendees will have read the work in advance, so if you are com... more The format of the seminar assumes attendees will have read the work in advance, so if you are coming do rsvp to carolinatrianglelaborseminar@gmail.com to get a copy of the article. The event is in-person. You can also join the event via zoom:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/95785635647
Abstract: Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of history as a privileged site of critical interrogations into what scholars have come to characterize as simplistic approaches to the study of history. In the US, in the 1980s and 1990s, the front row in this influential conversation, led by pioneers of poststructuralist analysis, was assigned to the most recent academic encounter with Marxism. The 1960s and 1970s British and American schools of social history were criticized for holding a set of naïve presuppositions characteristic of Marxism more generally, namely, the naïve belief in the historical protagonist whose engagement with the knowable world was, according to critics, uncomplicated with considerations of cultural mediation. By the beginning of the new century, even those who wrote to counter the emergent mainstream consensus could not help but agree that Marxism had become a “name for everything that now seemed to have been superseded.” In the counter plot I am proposing, the story does not end with the demise of Marxism. I argue that the kind of Marxist historical theory that was developed by Marxist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century has played a critical even if unacknowledged—that is, latent—role in the making of contemporary fields of social and cultural history in the U S. What proved to be particularly durable was precisely what the Marxist academic tradition allegedly lacked, that is, Marxist insights into such fundamental dilemmas of historical analysis as the problem of socio-cultural mediation and the challenges this theory posed to the concept of human agency in history.
Feminist Theory and Imperialism Conference, convened by Frances Hasso and Anna Krylova, November ... more Feminist Theory and Imperialism Conference, convened by Frances Hasso and Anna Krylova, November 30, 2022, Duke University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyXM9P1ll4
History Department Methods Lab, March 6, 2023, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm. The link for the discussion... more History Department Methods Lab, March 6, 2023, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm.
The link for the discussion recording https://history.duke.edu/news/methods-lab-anna-krylova-history-and-agency
Presenters: Dr. Anna Krylova, Dr. Malachi Hacohen, Vivien Tejada, and Dr. Prasenjit Duara. The panel was chaired by Dr. Jehangir Malegam.
Youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH\_3-m\_TGE4 Lecture at Global Capitalism and the... more Youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_3-m_TGE4
Lecture at Global Capitalism and the Worlds of Socialism Online Conference, HKU, April 2021.
Articles by Anna Krylova
Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians' encounter with post-structuralist theory, the e... more Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians' encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts of post-structuralist analysis as contingency, variability, instability, open-endedness, and so on. Having defined the last forty years of theoretical and methodological developments in history, these nowadays conventional tools of critique and interpretation have grown to become synonymous with the post-structuralist conceptual promise and outcome. This article questions this standard and exceptionally generous account. What if, the article asks, we start our account not with the resolute assertion of the radical contingency and variability of the post-structuralist view of history, but with something more fundamental to it-its own fixed and totalizing presuppositions? To show how an intellectual agenda opposed to fixed and totalizing reasoning can end up operating with fixed and totalizing logics of its own, the essay turns to Michel Foucault and his momentous career, to be traced from the 1960s to the 1980s.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000088
Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of histor... more Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of history as a privileged site of critical interrogations into what scholars have come to characterize as simplistic approaches to the study of history. In the US, in the 1980s and 1990s, the front row in this influential conversation, led by pioneers of poststructuralist analysis, was assigned to the most recent academic encounter with Marxism. The 1960s and 1970s British and American schools of social history were criticized for holding a set of naïve presuppositions characteristic of Marxism more generally. By the beginning of the new century, even those who wrote to counter the emergent mainstream consensus could not help but agree that Marxism had become a ‘name for everything that now seemed to have been superseded’. In the counter plot I am proposing, the story does not end with the demise of Marxism. I argue that the kind of Marxist historical theory that was developed by Marxist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century has played a critical even if unacknowledged—that is, latent—role in the making of contemporary fields of social and cultural history in the U S. What proved to be particularly durable was precisely what the Marxist academic tradition allegedly lacked, that is, Marxist insights into such fundamental dilemmas of historical analysis as the problem of socio-cultural mediation and the challenges this theory posed to the concept of human agency in history.
The AHR Forum includes: Anna Krylova, Agency and History Responses to Krylova's Agency and Histor... more The AHR Forum includes:
Anna Krylova, Agency and History
Responses to Krylova's Agency and History by William Sewell, Judith Walkowitz, Geoff Eley, Angela Zimmerman, Vivien Tejada
Anna Krylova's response to the critics, "Ideology, Power, and the Phantom of Agency."
In the 1990s, feminist scholars committed to bringing gender analytics into historiographies of m... more In the 1990s, feminist scholars committed to bringing gender analytics into historiographies of modern Russia and Central-Eastern Europe saw their mission as decidedly field-transforming. However, contrary to expectations, the gender analytics, as this chapter contends, did not enact a major shift in scholarship devoted to the problem of socialist modernities and their record of women’s emancipation. Rather, scholars drawing on innovative gender analysis happened to integrate it into what some scholars call “Cold War narratives” and empower their inbuilt propensities to prejudge socialism’s emancipatory promise. This chapter interrogates the peculiar behavior of the gender category in scholarship on socialist modernities by asking: how does one explain the ease with which Cold War plots have made themselves at home in gender-informed scholarship on socialism? It also follows the history of gender analysis into the emergent research that decisively ventures beyond Cold War plots. In conclusion, the chapter reflects on the future of gender in histories of socialism. It calls for turning the pioneering scholarship that examines alternative, non-binary, and, yet, heterosexual forms of organization of family, work, self into a new site—a theoretical resource—for the development of gender theory and methodology in the 21st century.
the article link -- http://www.nlobooks.ru/node/7612
Journal of Modern History, 2001
![Research paper thumbnail of Советское-личное: Семейно-бытовая тема в предвоенной Советской литературе [The Soviet and the Personal in Prewar Soviet Literature] / Соцреалистический Канон, 2000](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/31488138/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Hans Giunter and Evgeny Dobrenko, ed., Sotsialisticheskii Kanon (Socialist Realist Anthology), 2000
The format of the seminar assumes attendees will have read the work in advance, so if you are com... more The format of the seminar assumes attendees will have read the work in advance, so if you are coming do rsvp to carolinatrianglelaborseminar@gmail.com to get a copy of the article. The event is in-person. You can also join the event via zoom:
https://unc.zoom.us/j/95785635647
Abstract: Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of history as a privileged site of critical interrogations into what scholars have come to characterize as simplistic approaches to the study of history. In the US, in the 1980s and 1990s, the front row in this influential conversation, led by pioneers of poststructuralist analysis, was assigned to the most recent academic encounter with Marxism. The 1960s and 1970s British and American schools of social history were criticized for holding a set of naïve presuppositions characteristic of Marxism more generally, namely, the naïve belief in the historical protagonist whose engagement with the knowable world was, according to critics, uncomplicated with considerations of cultural mediation. By the beginning of the new century, even those who wrote to counter the emergent mainstream consensus could not help but agree that Marxism had become a “name for everything that now seemed to have been superseded.” In the counter plot I am proposing, the story does not end with the demise of Marxism. I argue that the kind of Marxist historical theory that was developed by Marxist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century has played a critical even if unacknowledged—that is, latent—role in the making of contemporary fields of social and cultural history in the U S. What proved to be particularly durable was precisely what the Marxist academic tradition allegedly lacked, that is, Marxist insights into such fundamental dilemmas of historical analysis as the problem of socio-cultural mediation and the challenges this theory posed to the concept of human agency in history.
Feminist Theory and Imperialism Conference, convened by Frances Hasso and Anna Krylova, November ... more Feminist Theory and Imperialism Conference, convened by Frances Hasso and Anna Krylova, November 30, 2022, Duke University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmyXM9P1ll4
History Department Methods Lab, March 6, 2023, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm. The link for the discussion... more History Department Methods Lab, March 6, 2023, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm.
The link for the discussion recording https://history.duke.edu/news/methods-lab-anna-krylova-history-and-agency
Presenters: Dr. Anna Krylova, Dr. Malachi Hacohen, Vivien Tejada, and Dr. Prasenjit Duara. The panel was chaired by Dr. Jehangir Malegam.
Youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH\_3-m\_TGE4 Lecture at Global Capitalism and the... more Youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_3-m_TGE4
Lecture at Global Capitalism and the Worlds of Socialism Online Conference, HKU, April 2021.
Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians' encounter with post-structuralist theory, the e... more Today, it seems impossible to discuss historians' encounter with post-structuralist theory, the ensuing triumphant surge of the cultural turn, and the establishment of what scholars have recently called the postcultural historiography without the help of such paramount concepts of post-structuralist analysis as contingency, variability, instability, open-endedness, and so on. Having defined the last forty years of theoretical and methodological developments in history, these nowadays conventional tools of critique and interpretation have grown to become synonymous with the post-structuralist conceptual promise and outcome. This article questions this standard and exceptionally generous account. What if, the article asks, we start our account not with the resolute assertion of the radical contingency and variability of the post-structuralist view of history, but with something more fundamental to it-its own fixed and totalizing presuppositions? To show how an intellectual agenda opposed to fixed and totalizing reasoning can end up operating with fixed and totalizing logics of its own, the essay turns to Michel Foucault and his momentous career, to be traced from the 1960s to the 1980s.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000088
Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of histor... more Over the past forty years, the Marxist intellectual tradition has served the discipline of history as a privileged site of critical interrogations into what scholars have come to characterize as simplistic approaches to the study of history. In the US, in the 1980s and 1990s, the front row in this influential conversation, led by pioneers of poststructuralist analysis, was assigned to the most recent academic encounter with Marxism. The 1960s and 1970s British and American schools of social history were criticized for holding a set of naïve presuppositions characteristic of Marxism more generally. By the beginning of the new century, even those who wrote to counter the emergent mainstream consensus could not help but agree that Marxism had become a ‘name for everything that now seemed to have been superseded’. In the counter plot I am proposing, the story does not end with the demise of Marxism. I argue that the kind of Marxist historical theory that was developed by Marxist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century has played a critical even if unacknowledged—that is, latent—role in the making of contemporary fields of social and cultural history in the U S. What proved to be particularly durable was precisely what the Marxist academic tradition allegedly lacked, that is, Marxist insights into such fundamental dilemmas of historical analysis as the problem of socio-cultural mediation and the challenges this theory posed to the concept of human agency in history.
The AHR Forum includes: Anna Krylova, Agency and History Responses to Krylova's Agency and Histor... more The AHR Forum includes:
Anna Krylova, Agency and History
Responses to Krylova's Agency and History by William Sewell, Judith Walkowitz, Geoff Eley, Angela Zimmerman, Vivien Tejada
Anna Krylova's response to the critics, "Ideology, Power, and the Phantom of Agency."
In the 1990s, feminist scholars committed to bringing gender analytics into historiographies of m... more In the 1990s, feminist scholars committed to bringing gender analytics into historiographies of modern Russia and Central-Eastern Europe saw their mission as decidedly field-transforming. However, contrary to expectations, the gender analytics, as this chapter contends, did not enact a major shift in scholarship devoted to the problem of socialist modernities and their record of women’s emancipation. Rather, scholars drawing on innovative gender analysis happened to integrate it into what some scholars call “Cold War narratives” and empower their inbuilt propensities to prejudge socialism’s emancipatory promise. This chapter interrogates the peculiar behavior of the gender category in scholarship on socialist modernities by asking: how does one explain the ease with which Cold War plots have made themselves at home in gender-informed scholarship on socialism? It also follows the history of gender analysis into the emergent research that decisively ventures beyond Cold War plots. In conclusion, the chapter reflects on the future of gender in histories of socialism. It calls for turning the pioneering scholarship that examines alternative, non-binary, and, yet, heterosexual forms of organization of family, work, self into a new site—a theoretical resource—for the development of gender theory and methodology in the 21st century.
the article link -- http://www.nlobooks.ru/node/7612
Journal of Modern History, 2001
Hans Giunter and Evgeny Dobrenko, ed., Sotsialisticheskii Kanon (Socialist Realist Anthology), 2000
A History of Women's Writing in Russia, 2002
Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The European Postwar in Comparative Perspective, 2010
Generations in Twentieth Century Europe, 2007
Gender & History
I consider this 2004 essay somewhat outdated, being the first attempt to enter the territory of B... more I consider this 2004 essay somewhat outdated, being the first attempt to enter the territory of Bolshevik-Soviet gender politics, culture, and identity that was predictably schematic. A more thoroughly theorized conceptualization of the Soviet gender politics, gendered identities, and what the case of Bolshevik socialist feminism and Soviet non-binary (as well as binary) conceptualizations of heterosexual subjectivity/difference has to offer to gender theory and history is developed in “Introduction” to Soviet Women in Combat (2010); “Gender Binary: The Limits of Poststructuralist Method” [mainly the introduction section and the last, fourth section] (2016); and “Socialist Feminism: Gender Agendas of Communism,” (forthcoming, 2017).
Over the last decade, this journal has published eight AHR Conversations on a wide range of topic... more Over the last decade, this journal has published eight AHR Conversations on a wide range of topics. By now, there is a regular format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The goal has been to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high level of expertise, in which participants are recruited across several fields. It is the sort of publishing project that this journal is uniquely positioned to undertake.
Slavic Review, 2003
... to gradualism, and impatient insistence that people follow his lead and act here and now, tho... more ... to gradualism, and impatient insistence that people follow his lead and act here and now, though his wish was that they "act" by not acting-ne-delanie-except ... Peters-burg between theRevolutions: Workers and Revolutionaries, June 1907-February 1917 (New Haven, 1990). ...
Journal of Modern History, 2005
Slavic Review, 2008
... 2. Rossiyskaya Sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya. 3. Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1... more ... 2. Rossiyskaya Sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya. 3. Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 18701924. Chto delat' I. Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 18701924. Chto delat'? English. 2005. II. Title. III. ... Chto delat? had a solid success among the narrow audience to whom it was addressed. ...
Organizers : École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Labex Tepsis (Transformatio... more Organizers : École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Labex Tepsis (Transformation de l'État, politisation des sociétés, institution du social) Partners : Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (Cercec, EHESS/CNRS, Paris), Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po (CHSP, Paris), Identités-Cultures-Territoires (ICT, Université Paris-Diderot), Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (GIP BULAC, Paris), Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC, Nanterre), Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH, Paris), Groupe d'études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques (GEO, Université de Strasbourg), Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), Centre d'études franco-russe (CEFR, Moscow).
A f r i c a n a n d A f r i c a n A me r i c a n S t u d i e s , D e p a r t me n t o f A r t , A... more A f r i c a n a n d A f r i c a n A me r i c a n S t u d i e s , D e p a r t me n t o f A r t , A r t H i s t o r y & V i s u a l S t u d i e s , D e p a r t me n t o f A s i a n a n d Mi d d l e E a s t e r n S t u d i e s , D e p a r t me n t o f E n g l i s h , I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o mp a r a t i v e S t u d i e s P r o g r a m, D e p a r t me n t o f S o c i o l o g y Re g i s t r a t i o n l i n kh t t p s : / / d u k e . z o o m. u s / me e t i n g / r e g i s t e r / t J Ml c Omq q T k s G N E g wv H k K p I A P e n A c D r WJ o Ob J a n u a r y 2 9 , 2 0 2 1 1 1 : 3 0 a . m. t o 1 : 1 5 p . m. E S T Z OOM e v e n t
positions: east asia cultures critique, 2010
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