The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism

by Douglas Rogers and Douglas Rogers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801456584
• ISBN13: 9780801456589
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher