Material Culture in Russia and the USSR: Things, Values, Identities, edited by Graham H. Roberts

Abstract

This book review provides a critical overview of a recent edited volume that focuses on different aspects and forms of material culture in the USSR and contemporary Russia. With authors drawn from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North America, the case studies focus on a wide range of objects, buildings, places, and phenomena that together further illuminate a unique sociocultural phenomenon and its current-day legacies.