Exploring visual and verbal figurations of the Lenin line in light of Vladimir Vernadsky’s theoretical formulation of the “biosphere,” Porter shows how the ur-queue of Soviet Communism spawned surprisingly heterodox answers to the questions of how time moves and how cultures shape and are shaped by natural forces.
The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia was established in 2011 thanks to a generous gift from the family of NYU alumni Boris and Elizabeth Jordan. The mission of the Center is to make Russia intrinsic to all aspects of scholarly investigation: from history to visual culture, literature to economics, anthropology to politics.