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| nameofpractice =Potemkin villages | |||
| flagemoji =🇷🇺 | |||
| definition =Facade built to deceive (lit or fig.) to hide an undesirable fact or condition | |||
| location =Russia | |||
| imagemap =Russia map.png | |||
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}} | [[:Category:Market|Market]] – [[:Category: Functional ambivalence| Functional ambivalence]] – [[:Category: Gaming the system| Gaming the system]] – [[:Category: Camouflage| Camouflage]] – [[:Category: Creating facades| Creating facades]] | ||
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[[:Category:Russia|Russia]] – [[:Category: FSU| FSU]] – [[:Category: Euphemism| Euphemism]] – [[:Category: Food| Food]] – [[:Category: Public service| Public service]] | |||
| authorofpiece =Jessica T. Pisano | |||
| authorinstitution =New School for Social Research, New York, USA | |||
| authorwebsite =[http://jessicapisano.net/ Personal website]}} | |||
<big>'''By Jessica T. Pisano, New School for Social Research, New York, USA'''</big> | |||
[[Category:Market]] | |||
[[Category: Functional ambivalence]] | |||
[[Category: Gaming the system]] | |||
[[Category: Camouflage]] | |||
[[Category: Creating facades]] | |||
[[Category:Russia]] | |||
[[Category: FSU]] | |||
[[Category: Euphemism]] | |||
[[Category: Food]] | |||
[[Category: Public service]] | |||
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[[Category: Volume 2]] | |||
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|style="font-size:1.1em;"|A Potemkin village is a simulation: a facade meant to fool the viewer into thinking that he or she is seeing the real thing. The concept is used in the Russian-speaking world as well as in English and in other languages. Potemkin village belongs to a genus of phenomena that proliferate in post-Soviet space. Those phenomena describe gaps between external appearances and underlying realities. In the Russian language, the genus includes species such as ''pokazukha'' (window-dressing, see Pisano 2014<ref>Pisano, J. 2014. “Pokazukha and Cardiologist Khrenov: Soviet legacies, legacy theatre, and usable pasts,” in Mark Beissinger and Stephen Kotkin, (eds.), Historical Legacies i Communist and Postcommunist Eurasia: State Executives, Property, Law, and Geopolitics since the 1970s. New York: Cambridge University Press.</ref>, Radio Maiak 2010<ref>Radio Maiak, 2010. ‘Pokazukha v Rossii,’ 17 December, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jygrov-aYmA.</ref>), ''imitatsiia'' (mimicry—a loan word from English, in contrast to the Russian ''podrazhenie'', or imitation), ''feik'' (doctored news images or reports), as well as a rich vocabulary describing various subspecies of shell companies: ''roga i kopyta''<ref>Ilf, I. and Petrov, E. 1998 (1931). Zolotoi telenok. Moscow: LOKID.</ref>, ''firma-odnodnevka'', ''fonar’, pomoika, ezhik'', and many others. | |||
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Potemkin villages bear a family resemblance to the phantasms of capitalist | Potemkin villages bear a family resemblance to the phantasms of capitalist | ||
reproduction that Baudrillard<ref>Baudrillard, 1985. Simulacra et Simulation. Editions Galilee.</ref> described as simulacra<ref>Epstein, M. 1995. ‘The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism,’ in After the | reproduction that Baudrillard<ref>Baudrillard, 1985. Simulacra et Simulation. Editions Galilee.</ref> described as simulacra<ref>Epstein, M. 1995. ‘The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism,’ in After the | ||
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movements<ref>Walker, E.T. 2014. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy. | movements<ref>Walker, E.T. 2014. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy. | ||
New York: Cambridge University Press.</ref>. | New York: Cambridge University Press.</ref>. | ||
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