Alexei Yurchak

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 856 citations indexed

About

Alexei Yurchak is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexei Yurchak has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 856 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Alexei Yurchak's work include Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 papers), Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition (2 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (2 papers). Alexei Yurchak is often cited by papers focused on Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 papers), Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition (2 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (2 papers). Alexei Yurchak collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Korea. Alexei Yurchak's co-authors include Dominic Boyer, John L. Jackson, Carlo Severi, Veena Das, Graham M. Jones, Anya Bernstein and Neil Thin and has published in prestigious journals such as Current Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and Public Culture.

In The Last Decade

Alexei Yurchak

18 papers receiving 611 citations

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

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Bernhard Giesen Germany

Michael Skey United Kingdom

Athena Athanasiou Greece

Luisa Passerini Italy

Alessandro Portelli Italy

Paul Buhle United States

Vijay Prashad United States

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James M. Penning United States

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2025). Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Princeton University Press eBooks.

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Yurchak, Alexei, et al.. (2023). Political Mutations in Present-Day Russia. Qui Parle. 32(2). 429–442.

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Jackson, John L., Graham M. Jones, Veena Das, et al.. (2020). Fake: Anthropological Keywords. 7 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2019). Communist Proteins: Lenin's Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life. Kritika. 20(4). 683–715. 1 indexed citations

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Bernstein, Anya & Alexei Yurchak. (2017). Sacred necropolitics. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7(2). 199–216. 1 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2017). The canon and the mushroom. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7(2). 165–198. 2 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2015). Bodies of Lenin. Representations. 129(1). 116–157. 32 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2015). Entrepreneurial Governmentality in Postsocialist Russia: A Cultural Investigation of Business Practices. 302–348. 4 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2014). Comment on Dace Dzenovska's ‘Bordering encounters’. Social Anthropology. 22(3). 296–299. 1 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2013). Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Princeton University Press eBooks. 369 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2011). A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom. Slavic Review. 70(2). 307–333. 11 indexed citations

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Boyer, Dominic & Alexei Yurchak. (2010). AMERICAN STIOB: Or, What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in the West. Cultural Anthropology. 25(2). 179–221. 116 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2008). Necro‐Utopia. Current Anthropology. 49(2). 199–224. 25 indexed citations

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Boyer, Dominic & Alexei Yurchak. (2008). Postsocialist Studies, Cultures of Parody and American Stiob. Anthropology News. 49(8). 9–10. 9 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2008). Suspending the Political: Late Soviet Artistic Experiments on the Margins of the State. Poetics Today. 29(4). 713–733. 10 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2003). Soviet Hegemony of Form: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 45(3). 480–510. 91 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2003). Russian Neoliberal: The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of “True Careerism”. The Russian Review. 62(1). 72–90. 53 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (2000). Privatize your name: Symbolic work in a post‐Soviet linguistic market. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 4(3). 406–434. 25 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (1997). The cynical reason of late socialism : language, ideology and culture of the last Soviet generation. UMI eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Yurchak, Alexei. (1997). The Cynical Reason of Late Socialism: Power, Pretense, and theAnekdot. Public Culture. 9(2). 161–188. 96 indexed citations

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