Sudha Rajagopalan is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A historian and contemporary media scholar, her book Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: the Culture of Moviegoing after Stalin (2009) was a pioneering, ethnohistorical study of Soviet movie reception. Her publications on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia since then have engaged with television audiences, celebrity cultures, and post-socialist memory. Her work is underpinned by an abiding interest in everyday life and consumption, both historical and contemporary.

• Journeys of Soviet Things: An Introduction / 1. Geopolitics. Lived Experience. Affect. Objects / 2. Cuba’s ‘Soviet period’ / 3. Soviet modcons: solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment / 4. Gifts and souvenirs: conviviality and sociality in everyday diplomacy / 5. India in a time of Soviet ‘friendship’ / 6. Soviet books: affective, transnational solidarities / 7. Soviet domestic artefacts: sociality and access / 8. Alternative cosmopolitanism. Eclectic Solidarities

Sudha Rajagopalan is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A historian and contemporary media scholar, her book Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: the Culture of Moviegoing after Stalin (2009) was a pioneering, ethnohistorical study of Soviet movie reception. Her publications on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia since then have engaged with television audiences, celebrity cultures, and post-socialist memory. Her work is underpinned by an abiding interest in everyday life and consumption, both historical and contemporary.

• Journeys of Soviet Things: An Introduction / 1. Geopolitics. Lived Experience. Affect. Objects / 2. Cuba’s ‘Soviet period’ / 3. Soviet modcons: solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment / 4. Gifts and souvenirs: conviviality and sociality in everyday diplomacy / 5. India in a time of Soviet ‘friendship’ / 6. Soviet books: affective, transnational solidarities / 7. Soviet domestic artefacts: sociality and access / 8. Alternative cosmopolitanism. Eclectic Solidarities

Sudha Rajagopalan is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A historian and contemporary media scholar, her book Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: the Culture of Moviegoing after Stalin (2009) was a pioneering, ethnohistorical study of Soviet movie reception. Her publications on the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia since then have engaged with television audiences, celebrity cultures, and post-socialist memory. Her work is underpinned by an abiding interest in everyday life and consumption, both historical and contemporary.

• Journeys of Soviet Things: An Introduction / 1. Geopolitics. Lived Experience. Affect. Objects / 2. Cuba’s ‘Soviet period’ / 3. Soviet modcons: solidarity and gratitude as geopolitical sentiment / 4. Gifts and souvenirs: conviviality and sociality in everyday diplomacy / 5. India in a time of Soviet ‘friendship’ / 6. Soviet books: affective, transnational solidarities / 7. Soviet domestic artefacts: sociality and access / 8. Alternative cosmopolitanism. Eclectic Solidarities