The life cycle of Russian things : from fish guts to Fabergé, 1600-present /

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Group Author: Smith, Alison Karen; Romaniello, Matthew P.; Starks, Tricia, 1969-
Published: Bloomsbury Academic,
Publisher Address: London, UK :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Carrier Form: x, 248 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781350186026
9781350186064
Index Number: DK32
CLC: K512.5
Call Number: K512.5/L722
Contents: Immateriality and intermateriality: the vanishing centrality of apothecary ware in Russian medicine / Clare Griffin -- Lime and limestone in eighteenth-century Russia / Alison K. Smith -- Underground materials: the (un)making of samizdat texts / Ann Komaromi -- Making fish guts into isinglass and glue / Matthew P. Romaniello -- The thickness of a plaid: textiles on the Chikhachev estate in 1830s Vladimir Province / Katherine Pickering Antonova -- Sugar as a "basic necessity": state efforts to supply the Russian Empire's population in the early twentieth century / Charles R. Steinwedel -- Making samovars Russian / Audra Yoder -- 'Constant companions': Fabergé tobacco cases and sensory prompts to addiction / Tricia Starks -- Socialism in one tank: the T-34 as a microcosm / Brandon Schechter -- Binding Siberia: Semen Remezov's Khorograficheskaia kniga in time and through time / Erika Monahan -- 'Rather poor and threadbare': Borogaz, scratching woman, and the intimacy of material / Marisa Karyl Franz -- 'Kunstschutz' in the war of annihilation or the power of images against ideology / Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig.