The Russian and Eurasian Studies program Presents

Socialist F(r)action of Oil: Petropoetics of Early Soviet Culture

In his lecture, Ilya Kalinin will explore the impact of the Bolshevik petroleum project - the extraction and use of oil - on the culture and ideology of the early Soviet state. Soviet society communicated with oil in the language of socialist transformation. But the sovietization of oil was broader than its technological and sociopolitical processing. For oil to flow from the wells and fill the arteries of the socialist economy, it had to permeate the discursive fabric of Soviet media and cultural production. Dr. Kalinin will discuss this complex relationship through an analysis of literary works, film, and visual art from the 1920s and beyond.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 205

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