The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism (2015)
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 to capitalist centers and postcolonial ‘petrostates,’ Rogers traces the distinctive contours of the socialist – and then postsocialist – oil complex, showing how oil has figured in the making and remaking of space and time, state and corporation, exchange and money, and past and present.