Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People by Serguei Oushakine
Using diverse historical and ethnographic materials, this collection explores the various relationships between people and things that were actively fostered during the seven decades of Soviet socialism. It demonstrates how things, not always fully socialist, energized social relations, shaped communities, cultivated new identities, objectified emerging attitudes, and provoked affective attachments. In particular, this collection pays close attention to what Viktor Shklovsky, the founder of Russian Formalism, called “long-term things”—palpable, non-fictitious objects that refuse to disappear, insisting instead on their active presence and enduring relevance.-
The Unconscious Spirit of Communism
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Paradise on the Instalment Plan
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“War Communism” as Revolution
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History of The Austrian Council Movement 1918–24
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Capitalism, Crisis and Democracy
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Solidarność
- In the Tracks of Western Marxism
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Class Struggle and Democratisation in Central America
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Schumpeter after Schumpeter
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Textbook for the Materialist Conception of History
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Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation: Reading Gramsci Today
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CLR James: Cultivator of the Popular Will
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From the Factory to the World
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Radical Transcendentalisms
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Marxism and the Status of Philosophy
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Rationality and the Poet
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Living Democracy
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The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci
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Studies on Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production
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Global Political Economy and the Modern State System
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Cataclysm 1914
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Plebeian Power
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Theories of Ideology
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In the Vale of Tears
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War and Revolution in Catalonia, 1936-1939
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Time, Capitalism and Alienation
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The Preobrazhensky Papers
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Gramsci's Pathways
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Looking for the Proletariat
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Marxism and Historical Practice (Vol. I)
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The Postcolonial Orient
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The Meanings of Work
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The Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) 1920 - 1937
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Communards and Other Cultural Histories
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The Types of Economic Policies under Capitalism
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In Marx's Laboratory
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Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time
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Marxism and the Oppression of Women
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The Dimensions of Hegemony
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Beyond Marx
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The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader
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Gramsci and Languages
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Marx and the Earth
Serguei Oushakine is Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. His research deals with Soviet and post-Soviet cultures in Eurasia. His current projects include a study of early Soviet pedagogy of images, and the history of Russian Formalism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004760356 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004760350 |
| Title | Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People |
| Author | Serguei Alex Oushakine |
| Series | Historical Materialism Book Series |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2026-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 620 |
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