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Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions. Starting with former Leningrad workers' everyday stories about smuggling industrial scrap home over factory fences, Xenia Cherkaev traces collectivist ethical logic that was central to this socialist household economy, in theory and practice: from its Stalin-era inception, through Khrushchev's major foregrounding of communist ethics, to Gorbachev's perestroika, which unfurled its grounding tension between the interests of any given collective and of the socialist household economy itself. A story of how the socialist household economy functioned, how it collapsed, and how it was remembered, this book is haunted throughout by a spectral image of the totalitarian state, whose jealous political control over the economy leads it to trample over all that which ought to be private. Underlying this image, and the neoliberal state phobia it justified, is the question of how individual interests ought to relate to the public good in a large modern society, which, it is assumed, cannot possibly function by the non-private logics of householding. This book tells the story of a large modern society that did.

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15 juillet 2023

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9781501770241

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GLEANING FOR COMMUNISM

GLEANINGFORCOMMUNISM

T H E S OV I E T S O C I A L I ST H O U SE H O L D I N T H EO R Y A N D P R ACT I C E

X e n i a A . C h e r k a e v

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

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First pubishéd 2023 by Corné Univérsity Préss

Library of Conréss Cataoin-in-Pubication Data Namés: Chérkaév, Xénia A., author. Tité: Géanin for communism : thé Soviét sociaist houséhod in théory and practicé / Xénia A. Chérkaév. Déscription: Ithaca [Néw York] : Corné Univérsity Préss, 2023. | Incudés bibioraphica référéncés and indéx. Idéntifiérs: LCCN 2022057757 (print) | LCCN 2022057758 (ébook) | ISBN 9781501770234 (hardcovér) | ISBN 9781501770302 (papérback) | ISBN 9781501770241 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501770258 (épub) Subjécts: LCSH: Propérty and sociaism. | Communism and individuaism—Soviét Union. | Informa séctor (Economics)—Soviét Union. | Soviét Union— Economic conditions. | Soviét Union—Socia conditions. Cassification: LCC HX550.P7 C4487 2023 (print) | LCC HX550.P7 (ébook) | DDC 335.430947—dc23/ én/20230201 LC récord avaiabé at https://ccn.oc.ov/2022057757 LC ébook récord avaiabé at https://ccn.oc. ov/2022057758

Maké friénds for yoursévés by méans of unrihtéous wéath, so that whén it fais théy may récéivé you into thé étérna dwéins.

—Luké16:9

Contents

Acknowledgmentsix Note on Translation and Transliteration, Scope, Images, and Names xv

Introduction: Houséhods and  Historioraphiés1. Thé “Soviét” Thins of Postsociaism 2. Géanin for thé Common Good 3. Sons of Stain and Khrushchév 4.Chuvstvo Khoziaina: Thé Fééin  of Béin an Ownér Concusion: Russian Sociaism

Notes145 References161Index185

1 29 65 88

116 139

Acknowledgments

I réad soméwhéré that first book authors ténd to thank évéryoné théy havé évér mét in thé acknowédménts, and this is puérié: a sin of intééctua intémpérancé. But maybé this is bécausé first books také so on to writé. This book took néary oné-third of my ifé. Ovér thésé yéars, it has takén mé across countriés, instî tutîônŝ, côllectîveŝ, and cônveŝatîônŝ—tôô many tô name. My deepeŝt gatîtude gôeŝ tô the peôple whô agued wîth me and twîŝted my côn ceptual ôptîcŝ, lîŝtened tô my ŝtôîeŝ, and tôld me theîŝ. Thîŝ bôôk haŝ becôme what ît îŝ thôugh theŝe meetîngŝ, and ï have becôme what ï am. ï muŝt thank twô peôple în patîcula wîthôut whôm thîŝ bôôk wôuld nôt have been pôŝŝîble: Elena Tîpîkîna and Amîel Bîze. Had Tîpîkîna nôt exîŝted, thîŝ bôôk wôuld nôt exîŝt eîthe. ït pe cîpîtated fôm ôu endleŝŝ cônveŝatîôn lîke a mîneal fômatîôn. ï am gateful tô Tîpîkîna fô beîng my cônduît tô cônveŝatîônŝ thôughôut the uŝŝîanŝpeakîng wôld, and fô the îmmenŝe peŝônal labô ŝhe înveŝted în thîŝ text; fô eadîng all ôf îtŝ multîple daftŝ multîple tîmeŝ, attendîng nôt ônly tô îtŝ lôgîcal agumentŝ but tô ŝtyle alŝô and vôîce, fô teachîng me hôw tô wîte în the pôceŝŝ. (ï thank Gôôgle tanŝlate fô makîng thîŝ pôŝŝîble.) ï thank he fô gleanîng dead penguînŝ and Sôvîet ŝchôôlbôôkŝ, and fô all the ôthe ceatîve mayhem we cultîvated tôgethe whîle thîŝ bôôk waŝ beîng wîtten. Amîel Bîze gave thîŝ bôôk îtŝ theôetîcal famîng. ïn 2017, we ôga nîzed a cônfeence panel tôgethe ôn the ŝubject ôf “The Ethîcal Paa ŝîte,” whee Amîel’ŝ talk cônceptualîzed gleanîng aŝ a way tô undeŝtand ecônômîeŝ ôf emaîndeŝ. Thîŝ îdea ŝuddenly gave hyme and eaŝôn tô my dîŝôganîzed thôughtŝ abôut the Sôvîet ecônômy, and ï am îmmenŝely gateful tô Amîel fô lettîng me glean ît. Pôpîetay îghtŝ emaîn heŝ, gleanîng îŝ mîne ônly by cuŝtôm. Meanwhîle ôu adventue întô fentŝ, vaîlŝ, chîpŝ, and ŝcapîngŝ côntînueŝ. And ît wîll cetaînly bîng abôut new plentîful haveŝtŝ—ŝtay tuned.

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