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architecture
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Conceptualism
construction projects
consumer culture
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domestic space
early Soviet period
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film theory
Futurism
gender
geology
Gulag history
heritage
history of science
humanism
installation art
intellectual history
labour
landscape
late socialism
literary theory
Material culture
medicine
minerals
Moscow Canal Project
museums
New Materialism
Object-oriented ontology
official language
oral history
poetry
propaganda
religion and atheism
Revolutionary War
Russian formalism
Stalinism
The Thaw
Thing Theory
vibrant matter
Product details
- ISBN 9781526182128
- Weight: 1034g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual art under perestroika. It starts from the ethos that the material world shapes people and society. Taking a material approach—or a range of material approaches—can therefore illuminate aspects of the cultural production and lived experiences of Soviet socialism that are not reflected in other kinds of historical records. This edited volume brings cutting-edge research by emerging scholars together with the established voices who have broken the ground in this sub-field over the last twenty years and promises to make a major intervention in the study of Soviet history and culture.
Mollie Arbuthnot is Assistant Professor of History at Nazarbayev University
Christianna Bonin is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at American University of Sharjah
Gabriella A. Ferrari is an independent scholar of Russian and Soviet visual culture
