Michael David‑Fox, Crossing Borders, Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union

A simple question demands a complicated answer: What about Soviet modernity? Even without its geographical restrictions the term created a lot of confusion on the basis of countless concepts among all sorts of academic disciplines. A tired out student of science studies already in 1991 moaned, the number of its meanings corresponds to the number of thinkers and journalists writing about it. The problem became more complicated when “modernity” was applied to the Soviet “case” where processes o...