Alexey Golubev, “The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia” (Cornell UP, 2020)

The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Cornell UP, 2020) is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographi…

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Batja Mesquita, “Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” (Norton, 2022)

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A pioneer of cultural psychology argues that emotions are not innate, but made as we live our lives together. We may think of emotions as universal responses, felt…

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The Andijon Massacre: Ten years later

Sarah Kendzior

May 13, 2015 will mark the ten-year anniversary of the Andijon massacre: the day military troops in Uzbekistan shot and killed over 700 Uzbek citizens gathered at a…

Post date 7th May 2015
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Rebecca Friedman, “Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia” (Bloomsbury, 2020)

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From the nostalgic landed estate with its backward gaze to the present-focused and efficient urban apartment to the utopian communal dreams of a Soviet future, the idea of…

Post date 19th August 2021
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