@article{1463185,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Porter, Jillian, and Vinokour, Maya,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1463185},
      title = {Energy culture : work, power, and waste in Russia and the  Soviet Union /},
      abstract = {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 volumes  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 Russias 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. Jillian Porter is Associate Professor in  the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and  Literatures at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She  is the author of Economies of Feeling: Russian Literature  under Nicholas I (2017) and has published essays on money,  commodities, and the queue in Russian and Soviet literature  and cinema. Maya Vinokour is Assistant Professor in the  Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York  University, USA. She studies Stalinist labor culture,  late-Soviet science fiction, and post-Soviet media.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14320-5},
      recid = {1463185},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}