On Russian soil : myth and materiality /

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"On Russian Soil explores how long-established myths of soil were reinvented for the modern age. At once a biography of a material object and a work of intellectual and cultural history, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Russian attitudes to soil from the early nineteenth to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Erley, Mieka (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Russia.
Soils > Philosophy.
Cultural landscapes > Russia.
Soils > Mythology > Russia.
Écologie humaine > Russie.
Sols > Philosophie.
Paysages culturels > Russie.
Sols > Mythologie > Russie.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Cultural landscapes
Human ecology
Russia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : groundwork
  • Native soil : the roots of the organic nation
  • Matter : models of soil and society
  • Dirt : dirty literature
  • Sediment : Soviet construction on Asian soil
  • Wasteland : Platonov's dialectics of waste and recuperation
  • Virgin land : the libidinal economy of virgin land
  • Epilogue : beyond earth.

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