Nostalgia, Soviet Things, and the Anthropology of “Spontaneous Materialism” (Review of the books Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Confronting the Empire’s Legacies, Routledge, 2020; The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev, Cornell University Press, 2020; Opasnyye sovetskiye veshchi: gorodskiye legendy i strakhi v SSSR by Aleksandra Arkhipova and Anna Kirzyuk, New Literary Observer, 2020)

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Nostalgia, Soviet Things, and the Anthropology of “Spontaneous Materialism” (Review of the books Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Confronting the Empire’s Legacies, Routledge, 2020; The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia by Alexey Golubev, Cornell University Press, 2020; Opasnyye sovetskiye veshchi: gorodskiye legendy i strakhi v SSSR by Aleksandra Arkhipova and Anna Kirzyuk, New Literary Observer, 2020)