Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War As Lived Experience in Cuba and India
In: Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War Ser.
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.