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Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union (2023)

Jillian Porter (Editor)
Maya Vinokour (Editor)

Springer Nature
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

ISBN: 9783031143205

Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 345

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Visual culture Fuels and fuel technology Energy consumption Technology and culture Technology and art Energy resources and technologies Modern Soviet Union Russia

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 energy have been highly consequential in the Anthropocene.

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