Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union (1st ed. 2023) (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)

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Synopsis
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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2023

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9783031143205
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9783031143199
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Springer International Publishing
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English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Jillian Porter
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Maya Vinokour

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