Title The depths of Russia : oil, power, and culture after socialism / Douglas Rogers

Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : oil, states and corporations, and the politics of culture -- The socialist oil complex : scarcity and hierarchies of prestige in the second Baku -- Circulation before privatization : petrobarter and new corporate forms -- The Lukoilization of production : space, capital, and surrogate currencies -- State/corporation : the social and cultural project movement -- Corporation/state : Lukoil as general partner of the Perm region -- Oil and culture : the depths of postsocialism -- Alternative energies : Lukoil-Perm in corporate and cultural fields -- "Bilbao on the Kama"? : the Perm cultural project and its critics Summary "Russia is among the world's leading oil producers, sitting atop the planet's eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been profoundly transformed by the oil industry. In The Depths of Russia, Douglas Rogers offers a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of oil's place in Soviet and Russian life, based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Perm region of the Urals. Moving beyond models of oil calibrated to capitalist centers and postcolonial "petrostates," Rogers traces the distinctive contours of the socialist--and then postsocialist--oil complex, showing how oil has figured in the making and remaking of space and time, state and corporation, exchange and money, and past and present. He pays special attention to the material properties and transformations of oil (from depth in subsoil deposits to toxicity in refining) and to the ways oil has echoed through a range of cultural registers. The Depths of Russia challenges the common focus on high politics and Kremlin intrigue by considering the role of oil in barter exchanges and surrogate currencies, industry-sponsored social and cultural development initiatives, and the city of Perm's campaign to become a European Capital of Culture. Rogers also situates Soviet and post-Soviet oil in global contexts, showing that many of the forms of state and corporate power that emerged in Russia after socialism are not outliers but very much part of a global family of state-corporate alliances gathered at the intersection of corporate social responsibility, cultural sponsorship, and the energy and extractive industries."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-359) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject LUKOĬL (Firm) -- History SUBJECT LUKOĬL (Firm) fast Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Permskiĭ kraĭ Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Permskiĭ kraĭ Social responsibility of business -- Russia (Federation) -- Permskiĭ kraĭ Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Permskiĭ kraĭ BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Fossil Fuels. Ethnology Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects Post-communism -- Social aspects Social conditions Social responsibility of business Erdölwirtschaft Postkommunismus Politische Kultur Staat SUBJECT Permskiĭ kraĭ (Russia) -- Social conditions Subject Russia (Federation) -- Permskiĭ kraĭ Russland Kraj Perm Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019725640 ISBN 9781501701566 1501701568 9781501701573 1501701576

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