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

Von: Golubev, Alexey [Author]Materialtyp: TextTextSprache: Englisch Ithaca Cornell University Press 2020Beschreibung: 240 SInhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen Datenträgertyp: BandISBN: 9781501752889Schlagwörter: Materialismus | Gesellschaftsleben | Soziale Wirklichkeit | Subjekt-Objekt-Problem | Individualität | Individualismus | Sozialismus | Materialismus | Materialität | Sprachanalyse | Sowjetunion
Inhalte:
Introduction: Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society1. Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin2. Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models3. History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia4. When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets5. The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron6. Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television SetConclusions: Soviet Objects and Socialist Modernity
Zusammenfassung: 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, and imaginary aspirations. Instead of seeing political structures and discursive frameworks as the only mechanisms for shaping Soviet citizens, Alexey Golubev explores how Soviet people used objects and spaces to substantiate their individual and collective selves. In doing so, Golubev rediscovers what helped Soviet citizens make sense of their selves and the world around them, ranging from space rockets and model aircraft to heritage buildings, and from home gyms to the hallways and basements of post-Stalinist housing. Through these various materialist fascinations, The Things of Life considers the ways in which many Soviet people subverted the efforts of the Communist regime to transform them into a rationally organized, disciplined, and easily controllable community. Golubev argues that late Soviet materiality had an immense impact on the organization of the Soviet historical and spatial imagination. His approach also makes clear the ways in which the Soviet self was an integral part of the global experience of modernity rather than simply an outcome of Communist propaganda. Through its focus on materiality and personhood, The Things of Life expands our understanding of what made Soviet people and society "Soviet."
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Introduction: Elemental Materialism in Soviet Culture and Society1. Techno-Utopian Visions of Soviet Intellectuals after Stalin2. Time in 1:72 Scale: The Plastic Historicity of Soviet Models3. History in Wood: The Search for Historical Authenticity in North Russia4. When Spaces of Transit Fail Their Designers: Social Antagonisms of Soviet Stairwells and Streets5. The Men of Steel: Repairing and Empowering Soviet Bodies with Iron6. Ordinary and Paranormal: The Soviet Television SetConclusions: Soviet Objects and Socialist Modernity

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, and imaginary aspirations. Instead of seeing political structures and discursive frameworks as the only mechanisms for shaping Soviet citizens, Alexey Golubev explores how Soviet people used objects and spaces to substantiate their individual and collective selves. In doing so, Golubev rediscovers what helped Soviet citizens make sense of their selves and the world around them, ranging from space rockets and model aircraft to heritage buildings, and from home gyms to the hallways and basements of post-Stalinist housing. Through these various materialist fascinations, The Things of Life considers the ways in which many Soviet people subverted the efforts of the Communist regime to transform them into a rationally organized, disciplined, and easily controllable community. Golubev argues that late Soviet materiality had an immense impact on the organization of the Soviet historical and spatial imagination. His approach also makes clear the ways in which the Soviet self was an integral part of the global experience of modernity rather than simply an outcome of Communist propaganda. Through its focus on materiality and personhood, The Things of Life expands our understanding of what made Soviet people and society "Soviet."

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