Participants

Antony Kalashnikov⁶; Nelly Bekus¹; Julie Deschepper⁵; Ekaterina Knoblauch⁴; Alexey Golubev²; Ekaterina Kulinicheva³;  ¹ University of Exeter, UK;  ² University of Houston, United States;  ³ Northwestern University, United States;  ⁴ Zurich University, Switzerland;  ⁵ Utrecht University, Netherlands;  ⁶ University of Waterloo, Canada

Discussion

This panel brings together editors and contributors to Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities, for a discussion of the book. The edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture.
Grounding the analysis of Soviet temporalities in their material incarnations not only lends concreteness to discussions of temporal culture, but also draws out ways in which the specificities of Soviet things—and their planning, design, manufacture, and consumption—mediated and produced particular ways of experiencing, perceiving, and representing time. As such, Time and Material Culture turns a new page in the study of the temporal and material culture of Soviet socialism and, in doing so, contributes to broader debates on the changing experiences of time in the global twentieth century. 
The book integrates interdisciplinary perspectives as well as regional approaches sensitive to the multinational nature of the Soviet project.