Odessa as "Point de Capital": Economics, History, and Time in Odessa Fiction.
Odessa was founded on the fault line between autocratic agricultural Russia and the international trade routes of emerging global capitalism. It was the place where the use value of agricultural products was converted into the exchange value of commodities. In the rift between these two systems of v...
| Published in: | Slavic Review Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 847 - 872 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Cambridge University Press
Winter2016
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