Soviet Materialities: Socialist Things, Environments and Affects

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Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual art under perestroika. It starts from the ethos that the material world shapes people and society. Taking a material approach-or a range of material approaches-can therefore illuminate aspects of the cultural production and lived experiences of Soviet socialism that are not reflected in other kinds of historical records. This edited volume brings cutting-edge research by emerging scholars together with the established voices who have broken the ground in this sub-field over the last twenty years and promises to make a major intervention in the study of Soviet history and culture.

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Mollie Arbuthnot is Assistant Professor of History at Nazarbayev University
Christianna Bonin is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at American University of Sharjah
Gabriella A. Ferrari is an independent scholar of Russian and Soviet visual culture