Seasoned Socialism

Foreword / Darra Goldstein

Introduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger

I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society

1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs

2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova

3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia Lakhtikova

II. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style

4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe

5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina

6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell

7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia Levkovitch

III. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food

8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia Wedrowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova

9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey

10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger

11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia Glaser

Afterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. Koenker

Index