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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Description: InĀ Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and FoodĀ (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), Dr. Susanne A. Wengle shows how agrotechnology servedāand underminedāSoviet and Russian political projects. āThe book emphasises a tight connection between political change, technological change in food systems, and the transformation of everyday lives - a connection that we can grasp and understand through the lens of technopolitics.āLike all facets of daily life, the food that Russian farms produced and citizens ateāor, in some years, didnāt eatāunderwent radical shifts in the century between the Bolshevik Revolution and V...