Energy culture : work, power, and waste in Russia and the Soviet Union /: work, power, and waste in Russia and the Soviet Union. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jillian Porter, Maya Vinokour.
• Editors: Porter, Jillian; Vinokour, Maya
• Contents: 1 Introduction: Energy Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union.2 The Energy of Chernyshevsky's Vera Pavlovna in the Modern Cultural Economy.3 The Energy Trap: Anna Karenina as a Parable for the Twenty-First Century.4 Picturing Coal in the Donbas: Nikolai Kasatkin and the Energy of Late Realism.5 Polar Fantasies: Valery Bryusov and the Russian Symbolist Electric Aesthetic.6 Energetic Liquids in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Utopianism.7 Revolutionary Burnout and the Rise of the Soviet Rest Regime.8 The Mechanics and Energetics of Soviet Communism: The Poetics of Peat.9 Leonid Brezhnev and the Elixir of Life.10 Russian Oil: Tragic Past, Radiant Future, and the Resurrection of the Dead.11 Of Mice and Degenerators: Post-progress Energy and Posthuman Bodies in Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx.12 Hydrocarbons on Hold: Energy Aesthetics of Teriberka in the Russian Arctic.13 Afterword on Chernobyl (2019): A Soviet Propaganda Win Delivered 33 Years Late.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 947.08; Power resources -- Social aspects -- Russia; Power resources -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union; Power (Mechanics) in art; Work in literature; Work in art; Russia -- Civilization -- 1801-1917
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031143205
• Related ISBNs: 9783031143199
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