Soviet materialities

Soviet materialitiesAuthor: Mollie Arbuthnot ISBN: 9781526182128 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 15 Jul 2026 Pages: 376 Format: Hardback 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

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