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        History / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

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        In Visible Presence

        In Visible Presence

        In Visible Presence

        Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos

        by Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko

        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

        Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

        Detroit–Moscow–Detroit

        An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945

        Edited by Jean-Louis Cohen, Christina E. Crawford and Claire Zimmerman

        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

        Bone Music

        Bone Music

        Soviet X-Ray Audio

        Edited by Stephen Coates

        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

        Stalin's Architect

        Stalin's Architect

        Power and Survival in Moscow

        by Deyan Sudjic

        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

        Russian Cosmism

        Russian Cosmism

        Edited by Boris Groys

        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

        How Not to Network a Nation

        How Not to Network a Nation

        The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

        by Benjamin Peters

        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

        Homo Sovieticus

        Homo Sovieticus

        Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny

        by Wladimir Velminski

        Translated by Erik Butler

        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

        X-Ray Audio

        X-Ray Audio

        The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone

        Edited by Stephen Coates

        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

        Producing Power

        Producing Power

        The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry

        by Sonja D. Schmid

        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.
        Russia

        Russia

        Russia

        A Long View

        by Yegor Gaidar

        Translated by Antonina W. Bouis

        Foreword by Anders Aslund

        ISBN: 9780262526838

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 29, 2014

        An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development.
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