The Soviet Century : : Archaeology of a Lost World /

The Soviet Century : : Archaeology of a Lost World / / Karl Schlögel.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? I...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
VerfasserIn:
Schlögel, Karl,
MitwirkendeR:
Livingstone, Rodney,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2021
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (928 p.) :; 85 b/w illus. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Translator’s Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Archaeology of a Vanished World
  • I. Shards of Empire
  • II. Highway of Enthusiasts
  • III. Soviet Sign-Worlds
  • IV. The Life of Things
  • V. Oases of Freedom
  • VI. Interiors
  • VII. Landscapes, Public Spaces
  • VIII. Big Data
  • IX. Rituals
  • X. Bodies
  • XI. Kolyma: The Pole of Cold
  • XII. The Solovetsky Special Camp—Laboratory of Extremes: Monastery Island as Concentration Camp
  • XIII. Corridors of Power
  • XIV. The Noise of Time
  • XV. Alien Territory, Contact Zones, In-Between Worlds
  • XVI. The Railroads of Empire: Time Travel Back into the Russian Twentieth Century
  • XVII. Red Cube: The Lenin Mausoleum as Keystone
  • XVIII. The Lubyanka Project: Design for a Musée Imaginaire of Soviet Civilisation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Selected Reading
  • Index

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