The Things of Life : : Materiality in Late Soviet Russia /

The Things of Life : : Materiality in Late Soviet Russia / / Alexey Golubev.

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The Things of Life is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced Soviet people's gender roles, habitual choices, social trajectories...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Golubev, Alexey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 18 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society
  • 1. Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin
  • 2. Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models
  • 3. History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia
  • 4. When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets
  • 5. The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron
  • 6. Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television Set
  • Conclusions: Soviet Objects and Socialist Modernity
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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