Format:
xiv, 233 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780367686574
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9780367686666
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in cultures of the global Cold War
Content:
At the intersection of history, material culture studies and post-socialist memory studies, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba. During the Cold War, an important means to perpetuate Soviet ideals of modernisation and anti-imperialist solidarity across the world was the circulation of 'banal' objects, produced in the Soviet Union and purchased, awarded and gifted for use in homes across the world. Based on oral accounts of Indian and Cuban interlocutors, this book examines the itineraries of Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books, nesting dolls, porcelain, and many other things. Explored this way, the Cold War is a matter of personal, affective, everyday experience. At the same time, by indicating the cohabitation of things in their home from around the world, interlocutors also go on to undercut simple geopolitical binaries that pit Soviet against American techno-politics. Accounts of Soviet objects in India and Cuba reveal a bricolage of preferences that crisscrossed ideological dualities of East vs West, communist vs. capitalist, making for an alternative cosmopolitanism that was in equal measure shaped by personal, local and national histories and experiences.
Content:
Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of the Cold War, in which Indians and Cubans use Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books and nesting dolls to narrate about Soviet friendship during the Cold War as personal, affective and everyday experience
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Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
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Journeys of Soviet things: an introduction -- Cuba -- Geopolitics. Lived experience. Affect. Objects -- Cuba's 'Soviet period' -- Soviet modcons : solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment -- Soviet gifts and souvenirs : sociality and conviviality in everyday diplomacy -- India -- India in a time of Soviet 'friendship' -- Soviet books : affective, transnational solidarities -- Soviet domestic artefacts : sociality and access -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
10.4324/9781003138495
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781003138495
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Rajagopalan, Sudha, 1970 - Journeys of Soviet things New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 ISBN 9781003138495
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781000848472
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781000848496
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
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Alltagsgegenstand
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Kuba
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Indien
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Ideologie
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Solidarität
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Geschichte
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