Material culture in Russia and the USSR: things, values, identities
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- List of figures -- INTRODUCTION -- References -- PART ONE Material Culture and (De)classification -- 1 Windows in Russian Peasant Dwellings in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- References -- 2 Equalizing Misery, Differentiating Objects: The Material World of the Stalinist Exile -- Introduction -- Objects as chances of survival -- First-aid objects on the road to exile -- Installation and key objects of adaptation -- Objects as signs of distinction -- Discovery and narratives of otherness -- Exchanging objects -- Improvements and reconstructions in the camera lens of the deportees -- Notes -- References -- 3 Constructing Soviet Domesticity and Managing Everyday Life from Khrushchev to Collapse -- Introduction -- Visions and realities: the role of aesthetic professionals in the production process -- The apartment as reprieve and responsibility -- Fostering domestic comfort ( uyut ) -- A new relationship between resident and expert -- Conclusion: was private life truly 'private'? -- Notes -- References -- 4 Photographs in Contemporary Russian Rural and Urban Interiors -- Introduction -- The 'red corner' and its equivalents -- Pictures of the living and the dead -- Stand or hang -- Visual message -- On the shelves -- Rules of grouping -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PART TWO Consuming Ideology -- 5 Russian Culture Through a Shot Glass: The Shustov Cognac Advertising Campaign, 1910-12 -- Notes -- References -- 6 The Invention of Soviet Advertising -- The first Soviet advertisements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- Consumers' interests and governmental accountability.