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This book is a Wunderkammer of Russian and Soviet culture, a museum of glass in literary texts, architecture, film, and other media. Her analysis of high and low culture is interspersed with the history of the material: the arrival of glass in Russia, the process of making window panes in the early nineteenth century, the working conditions in glass factories. The scope of the book is both astonishing and impressive. --The Russian Review This is a well-researched and well-argued book that will prove useful to scholars.... the book really inspires us to pay more attention to glass and the ways in which it shapes our lives --Slavic Review

"""This book is a Wunderkammer of Russian and Soviet culture, a museum of glass in literary texts, architecture, film, and other media. Her analysis of high and low culture is interspersed with the history of the material: the arrival of glass in Russia, the process of making window panes in the early nineteenth century, the working conditions in glass factories. The scope of the book is both astonishing and impressive."" --The Russian Review ""This is a well-researched and well-argued book that will prove useful to scholars.... the book really inspires us to pay more attention to glass and the ways in which it shapes our lives"" --Slavic Review"

""This book is a Wunderkammer of Russian and Soviet culture, a museum of glass in literary texts, architecture, film, and other media. Her analysis of high and low culture is interspersed with the history of the material: the arrival of glass in Russia, the process of making window panes in the early nineteenth century, the working conditions in glass factories. The scope of the book is both astonishing and impressive."" --The Russian Review ""This is a well-researched and well-argued book that will prove useful to scholars.... the book really inspires us to pay more attention to glass and the ways in which it shapes our lives"" --Slavic Review

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Julia Bekman Chadaga is an assistant professor of Russian at Macalester College in Minnesota, USA.

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