Material Culture in Russia and the USSR Things, Values, Identities [Hardcover]

Material Culture in Russia and the USSRcomprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin.

Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important role, as the distinction between private and public spheres has at times developed in radically different ways than in many places in the more commonly studied West. With case studies covering alcohol, fashion, cinema, advertising and photography among other topics, this wide-ranging collection offers an unparalleled survey of material culture in Russia and the USSR and addresses core questions such as: what makes Russian and Soviet material culture distinctive; who produces it; what values it portrays; and how it relates to 'high culture' and consumer culture.

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Introduction: Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, IdentitiesGraham H. Roberts, Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre La D?fence, France
1. Windows in Russian Peasant Dwellings in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesIvan R. Sokolovskii, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
2. Equalizing Misery, Differentiating Objects: The Material World of the Stalinist ExileEmilia Koustova, University of Strasbourg, France
3. Constructing Soviet Domesticity and Managing Everyday Life from Khrushchev to CollapseAnna Alekseyeva, University of Oxford, UK
4. Photographs in Contemporary Russian Rural and Urban InteriorsOlga Boitsova, University of St. Petersburg, Russia
5. Russian Culture through a Shot Glass: The Shustov Cognac Advertising Campaign 1910-12Sally West, Truman State University, USA
6. The Invention of Soviet AdvertisingMarjorie L. Hilton, Murray State University, USA
7. Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparatl“