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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-180) and index
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