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Author Erley, Mieka, author.

Title On Russian soil : myth and materiality / Mieka Erley.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index.
Contents Introduction : groundwork -- Native soil : the roots of the organic nation -- Matter : models of soil and society -- Dirt : dirty literature -- Sediment : Soviet construction on Asian soil -- Wasteland : Platonov's dialectics of waste and recuperation -- Virgin land : the libidinal economy of virgin land -- Epilogue : beyond earth.
Summary "On Russian Soil explores how long-established myths of soil were reinvented for the modern age. At once a biography of a material object and a work of intellectual and cultural history, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Russian attitudes to soil from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Human ecology -- Russia.
Human ecology.
Russia.
Soils -- Philosophy.
Soils.
Philosophy.
Cultural landscapes -- Russia.
Cultural landscapes.
Soils -- Mythology -- Russia.
Mythology.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Erley, Mieka. On Russian soil Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501755699 (DLC) 2020051001
ISBN 9781501755712 (pdf)
1501755714
9781501755705 (epub)
1501755706
9781501755699 (hardcover)