Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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TRANSLATOR’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION:: Archaeology of a Vanished World
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Barakholka in Izmailovsky Park, Bazaar in Petrograd
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The Soviet World as Museum
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Return to the Scene:: Petrograd 1917
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The Philosophy Steamer and the Splitting of Russian Culture
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USSR in Construction:: The Power of Images
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DniproHES:: America on the Dnieper
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Magnitogorsk:: The Pyramids of the Twentieth Century
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Black and White:: The Photographer’s Eye
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Excursion to the White Sea Canal
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Landscape after the Battle
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[III. Introduction]
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The Writing on the Wall
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Decorations and Medals:: Chest Badges
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Body Language:: Tattoos
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Moscow Graffiti:: In the Beginning Was Futurism
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Names Are Not Just Hot Air
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Wrapping Paper, Packaging
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The Fate of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia:: The Organisation of Knowledge amid the Tumult of History
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Galleries of Private Possessions:: The China Elephant on the Shelf
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The Piano in the Palace of Culture
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Rubbish:: A Phenomenology of Cleanliness
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Krasnaya Moskva:: Chanel in Soviet-Speak
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Stalin’s Cookbook:: Images of the Good Life in the Soviet Age
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Geologists’ Field Work and Other Breathing Spaces
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Dacha:: Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard in the Twentieth Century
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Health Resorts for Workers:: The Sanatorium as a Historical Locus
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Doorbells:: Nameplates and Signals
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Kommunalka, or Where the Soviet People Were Tempered
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The Interior as a Battlefield
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Hostel/Obshchezhitie:: Soviet Melting Pot
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Tent Cities, World of Barracks:: Finding One’s Way in ‘Russia in Flux’
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Palm Trees in the Civil War
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The Soviet Staircase:: Towards an Analysis of Anonymous and Anomic Spaces
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Ilya Kabakov’s Installation:: The Toilet as a Civilising Space
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The ‘Moscow Kitchen’, or the Rebirth of Civil Society
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Gorky Park:: A Garden for the New Human Being
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Diorama:: View of a Landscape with Heroes
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‘Zhilmassiv’, or the Sublime Vistas of the Prefab Mountains
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Russkaya Glubinka—the Country beyond the Big Cities
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Spetskhran:: Catalogue of Forbidden Books
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Diagrams of Progress, Diagrams of Catastrophes
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The Border at Brest—Rites of Passage
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Choreographies of Power:: Parades on Red Square and Elsewhere
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A ‘Temple of Modernity’:: The Crematorium
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ZAGS, or the Rituals of Everyday Life
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Queues as a Soviet Chronotope
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‘Think of the Parties We Had …’
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Fizkultura:: Soviets as Athletes
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Clothes for the New Human Being, or Christian Dior’s Return to Red Square
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Manly Grace:: Nureyev’s Gesture
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Kolyma:: The Pole of Cold
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The Solovetsky Special Camp—Laboratory of Extremes:: Monastery Island as Concentration Camp
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K. in the Labyrinth of Everyday Soviet Reality
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The ‘House on the Moskva’:: Machine for Living, Trap for People, Gated Community
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The Aura of the Telephone and the Absence of the Phone Book
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[XIV. Introduction]
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The Bells Fall Silent
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Levitan’s Voice
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Back in the USSR:: Sound Traces
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[XV. Introduction]
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‘The Little Oasis of the Diplomatic Colony’
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The Journalists’ Ghetto:: The View from Outside, Fixation with the Centre
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Beryozka Shops:: ‘Oases of Affluence’
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Genius of the Collector:: George Costakis and the Rediscovery of Soviet Avant-Garde Art
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The Railroads of Empire:: Time Travel Back into the Russian Twentieth Century
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Red Cube:: The Lenin Mausoleum as Keystone
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The Lubyanka Project:: Design for a Musée Imaginaire of Soviet Civilisation
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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NOTES
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SELECTED READING
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INDEX
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