1st Edition
Journeys of Soviet Things Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India
Journeys of Soviet Things: An Introduction
1. Geopolitics. Lived Experience. Affect. Objects
Part 1: Cuba
2. Cuba’s ‘Soviet period’
3. Soviet modcons: solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment
4. Soviet gifts and souvenirs: sociality and conviviality in everyday diplomacy
Part 2: India
5. India in a time of Soviet ‘friendship’
6. Soviet books: affective, transnational solidarities
7. Soviet domestic artefacts: sociality and access
Conclusion
Biography
Sudha Rajagopalan is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A historian and contemporary media scholar, her book Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: the Culture of Moviegoing after Stalin (2009) was a pioneering, ethnohistorical study of Soviet movie reception. Her publications on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia since then have engaged with television audiences, celebrity cultures, and post-socialist memory. Her work is underpinned by an abiding interest in everyday life and consumption, both historical and contemporary.
