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Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

Vinokour, Maya
Porter, Jillian

Hardcover

Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031143191
ISBN13: 9783031143199
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 7 2023
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist utopianism; and how fossil fuels, electricity, and nuclear fission generated distinct aesthetic features in Imperial Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature, cinema, and landscape. The volume's concentration on Russia responds to a clear need to understand the role the country plays in social, political, and economic processes endangering life on Earth today. The cultural dimension of Russia's efforts at energy dominance deserves increased scholarly attention not only in its own right, but also because it directly affects global energy policy. As the contributors to this volume argue, the nationally inflected cultural myths that underlie human engagements with energyhave been highly consequential in the Anthropocene.

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