1st Edition
Time and Material Culture Rethinking Soviet Temporalities
Introduction: Soviet Temporal and Material Cultures in Dialogue
Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi
Part 1: Alternatives, Dissonances, and Disjunctions
1. Chronopolitics: Restoring “Backward” Spaces to Modern Time in Soviet Baku after WWII
Heather de Haan
2. Soviet Industrial Time and Nonscalable Temporalities: Telling Time with Hydraulic Seas
Nastia Volynova
3. The Golden Age of Soviet Heritage: An Alternative Presentism?
Julie Deschepper
4. Conflicting Temporalities of Socialist Urbanity: Modernisation vis-à-vis Architectural Heritage in the Development of Minsk
Nelly Bekus
Part 2: Representations, Imaginations, and Narratives
5. Last Stop, Communism: Time as Space in Early Soviet Political Posters
Reed Johnson
6. From Survey to Inspiration: Accommodating Pre-Soviet Materiality in Soviet Lviv (1940s-1960s)
Sofia Dyak
7. Immortalising Yurts? The Temporalities of Nomadic Architecture in Stalinist Central Asia
Federico Marcomini
8. Hybrid Temporality Unveiled: Bridging People and State in the Late Soviet Union Through the Amateur Filmmaking Kit
Ekaterina Knoblauch
Part 3: Bodies, Experiences, and Perceptions
9. Stitches in Time: Maiakovskii’s Overcoat and Temporal Self-Fashioning in the Soviet Union
James Rann
10. Poets’ “Hand” on Display: Soviet Literary Museums as Curators of Sacral Materiality
Olga Voronina
11. Socialist Time in Fashion: The Late Soviet Interpretation
Ekaterina Kulinicheva
Conclusion: The Matter of Time
Alexey Golubev
Biography
Julie Deschepper is an Assistant Professor in Heritage and Museum Studies at Utrecht University. She specialises in the material culture of socialism, with a focus on Soviet monumental heritage in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Antony Kalashnikov is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo. He works on Soviet understandings of futurity. His monograph, Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time, came out in 2023.
Federica Rossi is an Assistant Professor in the History of Architecture at Iuav University of Venice, and a Research Associate at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and Università della Svizzera Italiana. She works on Russian and Soviet art, architecture and culture.
