The feelings of progress peripheral temporalities during late socialism (original) (raw)

Despite the different ways time is understood across cultures and even across academic disciplines, it is a human universal. Along with space, it sets the coordinates by which we understand the world and our place in it. The cluster of articles that follow examine how people who lived on the periphery of the Soviet Union from the 1960s to the 1980s used time to make sense of their lives and the reality in which they found themselves. In examining the “temporal regimes,” both static and evolving, of the Vologda oblast, Lithuania, and Karelia in late socialism, these articles shed new light on how Soviet citizens interpreted their place in time and employed conceptualizations of temporality to effect changes in time.