The Soviet Century : Archaeology of a Lost World /

"The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schlögel, Karl (Autor)
Otros Autores: Livingstone, Rodney (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Quality of life > Soviet Union.
Communism and culture > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union > Social life and customs > 1917-1970.
Soviet Union > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : archaeology of a vanished world
  • Shards of Empire
  • Highway of enthusiasts
  • Soviet sign-worlds
  • The life of things
  • Oases of freedom
  • Interiors
  • Landscapes, public spaces
  • Big data
  • Rituals
  • Bodies
  • Kolyma : the pole of cold
  • The Solovetsky special camp, laboratory of extremes : Monastery Island as concentration camp
  • Corridors of power
  • The noise of time
  • Alien territory, contact zones, in-between worlds
  • The railroads of empire : time travel back into the Russian twentieth century
  • Red cube : the Lenin mausoleum as keystone
  • The Lubyanka project : design for a musée imaginaire of Soviet civilisation.

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