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In Visible Presence
Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
ISBN: 9780262048279
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
An absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closure, and complicate the meaning of the past.
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
ISBN: 9780262047982
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.
Bone Music
Soviet X-Ray Audio
ISBN: 9781913689476
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
Stalin's Architect
Power and Survival in Moscow
ISBN: 9780262046862
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 14, 2022
The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.
Russian Cosmism
ISBN: 9780262037433
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2018
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
How Not to Network a Nation
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
ISBN: 9780262534666
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.
Homo Sovieticus
Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
ISBN: 9780262035699
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2017
How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hypnotism over television to control the minds of citizens.
X-Ray Audio
The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone
ISBN: 9781907222382
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 8, 2015
Telling the story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour, this is the secret history of Russian X-ray records and of the people who made, bought and sold them.
Producing Power
The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
ISBN: 9780262538800
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2015
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.
In Visible Presence
Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
ISBN: 9780262048279
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 3, 2023
An absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closure, and complicate the meaning of the past.
Detroit–Moscow–Detroit
An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945
ISBN: 9780262047982
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 19, 2023
Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperative—an original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.
Bone Music
Soviet X-Ray Audio
ISBN: 9781913689476
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
Stalin's Architect
Power and Survival in Moscow
ISBN: 9780262046862
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 14, 2022
The story of Boris Iofan—designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets—whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.
Russian Cosmism
ISBN: 9780262037433
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 16, 2018
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
How Not to Network a Nation
The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
ISBN: 9780262534666
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 8, 2017
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists.
Homo Sovieticus
Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
ISBN: 9780262035699
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2017
How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hypnotism over television to control the minds of citizens.
X-Ray Audio
The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone
ISBN: 9781907222382
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 8, 2015
Telling the story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour, this is the secret history of Russian X-ray records and of the people who made, bought and sold them.
Producing Power
The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry
ISBN: 9780262538800
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2015
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl.
