On Russian soil : myth and materiality /
Mieka Erley.
- 1 online resource.
- NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Groundwork -- Native soil: the roots of the Herderian organic nation -- Matter: models of soil and society -- Dirt: dirty literature -- Sediment: Soviet construction on asian soil -- Wasteland: Platonov's dialectics of waste and recuperation -- Virgin land: the libidinal economy of virgin land -- Beyond earth.
"On Russian Soil explores how long-established myths of soil were reinvented for the modern age. At once a biography of a material object and a work of intellectual and cultural history, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Russian attitudes to soil from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century"--
2020051002
Human ecology--Russia. Soils--Philosophy. Cultural landscapes--Russia. Soils--Mythology--Russia.