{"id":16704,"date":"2023-10-02T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=16704"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:34:55","slug":"alexei-yurchak-mutations-of-lenin-the-sacred-core-of-sovereignty-soviet-post-soviet-anti-soviet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/alexei-yurchak-mutations-of-lenin-the-sacred-core-of-sovereignty-soviet-post-soviet-anti-soviet\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexei Yurchak | Mutations of \u201cLenin\u201d The Sacred Core of Sovereignty: Soviet, Post-Soviet, Anti-Soviet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fellisoncenteruw%2Falexei-yurchak-mutations-of-lenin-the-sacred-core-of-sovereignty-soviet-post-soviet%3Futm_source%3Dclipboard%26amp%3Butm_medium%3Dtext%26amp%3Butm_campaign%3Dsocial_sharing&color=%23ff5500&amp%3Bauto_play=false&amp%3Bhide_related=false&amp%3Bshow_comments=true&amp%3Bshow_user=true&amp%3Bshow_reposts=false&amp%3Bshow_teaser=true&amp%3Bshow_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington presents the keynote lecture of the 2023 REECAS Northwest Annual Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. His interests include political anthropology, linguistic anthropology, science and technology studies, anthropology of the image and Soviet and post-Soviet studies. He is the author of the award-winning book, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation. He is currently finishing a book on the political, scientific and aesthetic histories of Lenin\u2019s body that has been maintained by a unique laboratory science for a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington presents the keynote lecture of the 2023 REECAS Northwest Annual Conference. Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. 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