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Front Matter -- Contents -- List of colour plates -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Introduction -- Part I: Land, Water, Ecologies -- 'And stones speak!': mapping, mosaics, and the Soviet materiality of wonder -- Moving matters: Turksib and its orientations -- Seas of material residues, or diving into the wayward archive of the Moscow Canal -- Embodied nature: landscape as architecture during the Thaw -- Reflection: The materialism of Soviet stones, liquids, and landscapes -- Part II: Words, Matter, Mind -- The livingness of texts in Vladimir Sorokin and Dmitrii Prigov's literature and performance art -- Kruchenykh's explosive texts: elemental anarchy in the gelatine press and the gelatine bomb -- Formalists -- The vanishing brains of the Soviet Pantheon and the vexing question of the materiality of Soviet subjects -- Reflection: Wordy things, thingly signs, and other points of transfer -- Part III: Things in Time -- A building containing the universe: atheism and material heritage in late Soviet Tashkent -- Things of life in times of extremes: survival materialities during the Soviet famines in Ukraine -- How did material culture matter in the Khrushchev-era USSR? Everyday aesthetics and the socialist culture of things -- Reprocessing and resurfacing reality: reworking the everyday and the avant-garde in the artistic laboratory of Irina Nakhova -- Reflection: One does not kiss a monument of ancient art: Russian Orthodox icons and the abducted materiality of modernity -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Plates.

Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and objects co-shaped identity, ideology, and social life. This interdisciplinary volume bridges Soviet-era thought with theoretical insights from New Materialism, offering a groundbreaking approach to the study of the Soviet past.