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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Journeys of Soviet things: An introduction -- What this book does -- Cuba and India -- Soviet objects -- Household technologies -- Books -- Decorative artefacts -- Internationalism: competitive technologies and cultural outreach -- Structure -- Methods: the interview as conversation -- Cuban and Indian interviews -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Geopolitics. Lived experience. Affect. Objects -- Critical geopolitics and the feminist, intimate turn -- Technopolitics -- Multiple sites, multiple actors -- Lived experience -- Emotions and affect -- Social agents -- Objects -- Agentic objects -- Absence, disposal -- Consumption junction/technologies in use -- Narrative and memory -- Objects and storytelling -- Memory -- Note -- References -- Part I: Cuba -- Chapter 2: Cuba's 'Soviet period' -- The revolution in Cuba and 'Sovietisation' -- Transversal ties -- Cuba's independent foreign policy -- Mutual perceptions during the Cold War -- How Soviet goods reached Cuba -- Cuba and Russia today -- The Cuban interlocutors -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Soviet modcons: Solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment -- Consumption as a morality tale: moral scripts that provide meaning -- The antes frame -- Gratitude as geopolitical sentiment -- Solidarity's materialities -- Empathy for Soviet choices -- Rejection, disposal -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Soviet gifts and souvenirs: Sociality and conviviality in everyday diplomacy -- Souvenirs as artefacts embodying geosociality -- The antes frame: revolutionary beginnings and new journeys -- Student life as a site of geosociality -- 'Home' memories -- The Soviet unravelling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: India.

Russian slash practices are much more than a protest subculture—a reductionist term that implies an unchanging isolation from other public realms. The political significance of slash practices on the Russian-language Internet, Runet, is more effectively understood by examining how slash and slashers travel from fannish to other public spaces to shape everyday political conversations about sexual politics in Russia.

Russian slash practices are much more than a protest subculture—a reductionist term that implies an unchanging isolation from other public realms. The political significance of slash practices on the Russian-language Internet, Runet, is more effectively understood by examining how slash and slashers travel from fannish to other public spaces to shape everyday political conversations about sexual politics in Russia.