"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 earl…
Blending close readings of literature, films, and other artworks with analysis of texts of political philosophy, science, and social theory, Mieka Erley offers an interdisciplinary perspective on attitudes to soil in Russia and the Soviet Union from the early nineteenth to the m…
Groundwork -- Native soil: the roots of the Herderian 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…
"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 earl…