Living with socialism: Toward an archaeology of a post-soviet industrial town
While the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it left a heavy legacy in the form of industrial towns, residential buildings, infrastructure networks, and ecological damage that extends the Soviet Union’s effective history into the present day. This paper explores this legacy through the perspective of c...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/31163 2023-10-25T01:40:34+02:00 Living with socialism: Toward an archaeology of a post-soviet industrial town Venovcevs, Anatolijs 2020-11-08 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31163 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.017 eng eng Elsevier The Extractive Industries and Society Norges forskningsråd: 250296 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X20302860 Venovcevs A. Living with socialism: Toward an archaeology of a post-soviet industrial town. The Extractive Industries and Society. 2020:1-9 FRIDAID 1850047 doi:10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.017 2214-790X 2214-7918 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31163 openAccess Copyright 2020 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel submittedVersion 2020 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.017 2023-09-27T23:07:37Z While the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it left a heavy legacy in the form of industrial towns, residential buildings, infrastructure networks, and ecological damage that extends the Soviet Union’s effective history into the present day. This paper explores this legacy through the perspective of contemporary archaeology to better understand how material culture from the Soviet period is being reused in the present concerning the resource extractive industry. Research focuses on the nickel, copper, and cobalt-processing town of Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast in northwest Russia. By employing a combination of historical sources and fieldwork, the paper demonstrates how things from the Soviet past are being repurposed in the post-Soviet present. This in turn limits possibilities for imagined possible futures by its residents. The paper concludes by highlighting the need to pay attention to the material culture of the resource extraction industry itself when studying its persistent legacies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Murmansk Oblast Northwest Russia University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Monchegorsk ENVELOPE(32.874,32.874,67.940,67.940) Murmansk The Extractive Industries and Society 8 4 100835 |
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While the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it left a heavy legacy in the form of industrial towns, residential buildings, infrastructure networks, and ecological damage that extends the Soviet Union’s effective history into the present day. This paper explores this legacy through the perspective of contemporary archaeology to better understand how material culture from the Soviet period is being reused in the present concerning the resource extractive industry. Research focuses on the nickel, copper, and cobalt-processing town of Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast in northwest Russia. By employing a combination of historical sources and fieldwork, the paper demonstrates how things from the Soviet past are being repurposed in the post-Soviet present. This in turn limits possibilities for imagined possible futures by its residents. The paper concludes by highlighting the need to pay attention to the material culture of the resource extraction industry itself when studying its persistent legacies. |
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