Time and Material Culture.
Rethinking Soviet Temporalities

Contents

Introduction: Soviet Temporal and Material Cultures in Dialogue

Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, Federica Rossi

Part 1: Alternatives, Dissonances, and Disjunctions

1. Chronopolitics: Restoring “Backward” Spaces to Modern Time in Soviet Baku after WWII

Heather de Haan

2. Soviet Industrial Time and Nonscalable Temporalities: Telling Time with Hydraulic Seas

Nastia Volynova

3. The Golden Age of Soviet Heritage: An Alternative Presentism?

Julie Deschepper

4. Conflicting Temporalities of Socialist Urbanity: Modernisation vis-à-vis Architectural Heritage in the Development of Minsk

Nelly Bekus

Part 2: Representations, Imaginations, and Narratives

5. Last Stop, Communism: Time as Space in Early Soviet Political Posters

Reed Johnson

6. From Survey to Inspiration: Accommodating Pre-Soviet Materiality in Soviet Lviv (1940s-1960s)

Sofia Dyak

7. Immortalising Yurts? The Temporalities of Nomadic Architecture in Stalinist Central Asia

Federico Marcomini

8. Hybrid Temporality Unveiled: Bridging People and State in the Late Soviet Union Through the Amateur Filmmaking Kit

Ekaterina Knoblauch

Part 3: Bodies, Experiences, and Perceptions

9. Stitches in Time: Maiakovskii’s Overcoat and Temporal Self-Fashioning in the Soviet Union 

James Rann

10. Poets’ “Hand” on Display: Soviet Literary Museums as Curators of Sacral Materiality

Olga Voronina

11. Socialist Time in Fashion: The Late Soviet Interpretation

Ekaterina Kulinicheva

Conclusion: The Matter of Time

Alexey Golubev

You can find further details about the conference here: https://www.khi.fi.it/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/07/Temporality-and-Material-Culture-under-Socialism.php 

Recordings of the event are available here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11282097