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The Things of Life : Materiality in Late Soviet Russia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501752896
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Things of LifeDDC classification:
  • 947.08500000000004
LOC classification:
  • DK266.4
Online resources:
Contents:
The Things of Life -- 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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The Things of Life -- 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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