Hewn from stone: (re)presenting Soviet material cultures and identities.

From: Journal of Social History | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Moran, Dominique | Copyright information

This paper discusses the use of precious and semi-precious stone (1) in 1920s and 1930s Soviet material culture, and links this discussion to an established discourse in Soviet historical studies--that of the remaking of Soviet labor. I connect these two for the simple reason that in the early Soviet period, they were closely entwined. Stone cutters or lapidaries, trained under the Tsarist system, and skilled at making the kind of luxury goods that later proved useful to the Soviet...

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