Title Journeys of Soviet Things Cold War As Lived Experience in Cuba and India

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (248 p.) Series Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War Ser Routledge studies in cultures of the global Cold War. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Journeys of Soviet things: An introduction -- What this book does -- Cuba and India -- Soviet objects -- Household technologies -- Books -- Decorative artefacts -- Internationalism: competitive technologies and cultural outreach -- Structure -- Methods: the interview as conversation -- Cuban and Indian interviews -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Geopolitics. Lived experience. Affect. Objects -- Critical geopolitics and the feminist, intimate turn Technopolitics -- Multiple sites, multiple actors -- Lived experience -- Emotions and affect -- Social agents -- Objects -- Agentic objects -- Absence, disposal -- Consumption junction/technologies in use -- Narrative and memory -- Objects and storytelling -- Memory -- Note -- References -- Part I: Cuba -- Chapter 2: Cuba's 'Soviet period' -- The revolution in Cuba and 'Sovietisation' -- Transversal ties -- Cuba's independent foreign policy -- Mutual perceptions during the Cold War -- How Soviet goods reached Cuba -- Cuba and Russia today -- The Cuban interlocutors -- Notes -- References Chapter 3: Soviet modcons: Solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment -- Consumption as a morality tale: moral scripts that provide meaning -- The antes frame -- Gratitude as geopolitical sentiment -- Solidarity's materialities -- Empathy for Soviet choices -- Rejection, disposal -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Soviet gifts and souvenirs: Sociality and conviviality in everyday diplomacy -- Souvenirs as artefacts embodying geosociality -- The antes frame: revolutionary beginnings and new journeys -- Student life as a site of geosociality -- 'Home' memories The Soviet unravelling -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: India -- Chapter 5: India in a time of Soviet 'friendship' -- Finding each other on the international stage -- India's mixed economy: the ups and downs of Soviet trade -- Soviet cultural outreach and Indian public opinion -- Soviet things in Indian homes -- Neoliberalism, socialism and Indo-Russian 'friendship' as familiar habit -- The Indian interlocutors -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Soviet books: Affective, transnational solidarities -- The circuit and the object Reading Soviet books and magazines: alternative solidarities -- The opening up of a world -- Convergent lives -- The value of Soviet scientific temper -- Affective atmosphere -- A moral regime, now missed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Soviet domestic artefacts: Sociality and access -- Soviet aesthetic and functional objects in Indian homes -- 'Home' memories -- Intellectual affinities, solidarities -- Household technologies: oddities and social goods -- Public works: sites of solidarities -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion Notes Description based upon print version of record Soviet objects at the intersection of multiple histories Subject Personal belongings -- Cuba Personal belongings -- India Material culture -- Soviet Union International relations Material culture Personal belongings Cuba -- Relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Relations -- Cuba India -- Relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Relations -- India Cuba India Soviet Union Form Electronic book ISBN 1000848477 9781000848472

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