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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India

Journeys of Soviet Things: Cold War as Lived Experience in Cuba and India

Rajagopalan, Sudha

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War

Caribbean HistoryGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0367686570
ISBN13: 9780367686574
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 3 2023
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba. During the Cold War, an important means to perpetuate Soviet ideals of modernisation and anti-imperialist solidarity across the world was the circulation of 'banal' objects, produced in the Soviet Union and purchased, awarded, and gifted for use in homes across the world. Based on oral accounts of Indian and Cuban interlocutors, this book examines the itineraries of Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books, nesting dolls, porcelain, and many other things. Explored this way, the Cold War is a matter of personal, affective, everyday experience.

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