Russian History through the Senses

Matthew P. Romaniello is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He is the author of The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552-1671 (2012), and the co-editor of three volumes, including Tobacco in Russian History and Culture from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2009) with Tricia Starks.Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is the author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene and the Revolutionary State (2008) and is completing a monograph on smoking in modern Russia.

This study is an engaging interdisciplinary investigation of the sense in the specifically Russian context, which will be useful to those interested in sensory studies, Russian History, everyday culture, literature, and film, as well as those studying discourses on national identity, colonialism, social mobility and social engineering, personal and collective experiences, and memory.

• List of MapsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: The Sensory in Russian and Soviet History - Alexander M. Martin, University of Notre Dame, USAPart I - Imperial Russia2. Humoral Bodies in Cold Climates - Matthew P. Romaniello, University of Hawaii, USA3. Fermentation, Taste and Identity - Alison K. Smith, University of Toronto, Canada4. Market Pleasures and Prostitution in St. Petersburg - Abby Schrader, Franklin and Marshall College, USAPart II - Revolutionary Russia5. The Taste, Smell, and Semiotics of Cigarettes - Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas, USA6. The Sounds, Odors, and Textures of Russian Wartime Nursing - Laurie Stoff, Arizona State University, USA7. The Taste of Kumyshka and the Debate over Udmurt Culture - Aaron Retish, Wayne State University, USAPart III - Soviet Russia8. Engineering Tastes: Food and the Senses - Anton Masterovoy, City College of New York, USA9. Deafness and the Politics of Hearing - Claire Shaw, University of Bristol, UK10. Sensing Danger: The Red Army during the Second World War - Steven G. Jug, Baylor University, USAPart IV - Reconstructing Russia11. The Sensory Experience of Martyrdom and Soviet Collective Memory - Adrienne Harris, Baylor University, USA12. Stalinism’s Sights and Smells in the Films of Aleksei German, Sr. - Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College, USASelected bibliographyIndex