Living with socialism: Toward an archaeology of a post-soviet industrial town

• Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society
• Main Author: Venovcevs, Anatolijs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Monchegorsk; Murmansk; Murmansk Oblast; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/31163; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.017

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...