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Cherkaev has fashioned a historical ethnography of this property regime which is both theoretically complex and convincing. Rich in emic detail, it captures the essence of how the socialist household functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered. -- Dominic Martin * Ab Imperio * This book is to be praised, primarily, for granting Soviet citizens subjectivity without making them liberal subjects. It is a great contribution to the conversation about alternative modernity and a thought-provoking, engaging and clever reading. -- Anna Ivanova * H-Soz-Kult * Cherkaev's exploration of the Soviet period is not only fulfilling on its own terms, but also provides an explanatory framework for a wide range of common practices that remain long into the post-Soviet era. * Russian Review *

"Cherkaev has fashioned a historical ethnography of this property regime which is both theoretically complex and convincing. Rich in emic detail, it captures the essence of how the socialist household functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered. * Ab Imperio * This book is to be praised, primarily, for granting Soviet citizens subjectivity without making them liberal subjects. It is a great contribution to the conversation about alternative modernity and a thought-provoking, engaging and clever reading. -- Anna Ivanova * H-Soz-Kult * Cherkaev's exploration of the Soviet period is not only fulfilling on its own terms, but also provides an explanatory framework for a wide range of common practices that remain long into the post-Soviet era. * Russian Review * Gleaning for Communism is, I hope, the first book of many to revisit the question of property and ethics, and how their interrelationship structures social relations. This book should inspire research on the material history of consumerism and historical and anthropological work on housing and Soviet welfare provision more generally. * Europe-Asia Studies * Cherkaev makes an important contribution to the history of ideas and intellectual history as she consistently traces the emergence, development, transformation, and decline of the concept of ""socialist property"" (""socialist economy"") from the early post-revolutionary years to the collapse of the Soviet Union. * Antropologicheskij forum *"

Cherkaev has fashioned a historical ethnography of this property regime which is both theoretically complex and convincing. Rich in emic detail, it captures the essence of how the socialist household functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered. -- Dominic Martin * Ab Imperio * This book is to be praised, primarily, for granting Soviet citizens subjectivity without making them liberal subjects. It is a great contribution to the conversation about alternative modernity and a thought-provoking, engaging and clever reading. -- Anna Ivanova * H-Soz-Kult * Cherkaev's exploration of the Soviet period is not only fulfilling on its own terms, but also provides an explanatory framework for a wide range of common practices that remain long into the post-Soviet era. * Russian Review * Cherkaev's book turns accepted Soviet historiography on its head. -- Lois Kalb * Europe-Asia Studies *

Cherkaev has fashioned a historical ethnography of this property regime which is both theoretically complex and convincing. Rich in emic detail, it captures the essence of how the socialist household functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered. -- Dominic Martin * Ab Imperio *

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Xenia Cherkaev is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the Higher School of Economics University, St. Petersburg, Russia. She has published articles in The American Historical Review; Cahiers du monde Russe; Environmental Humanities; and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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