The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow

by Karl Schlögel

Other authorsJessica Spengler (Translator)
EPUB, 2021

Publication

Polity (2021), Edition: 1, 220 pages

ISBN

1509546596 / 9781509546596

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CONTENTS
1. Extracurricular activity
2. The scent of the empire, or how Le Bouquet de Catherine from 1913 led to Chanel No. 5 and the Soviet perfume Red Moscow after the Russian Revolution
3. Scentscapes. Prouvést's madeleine and historiography
4. When 'the weakest link breaks in the imperialist chain' (Lenin). The world of scents and the olfactory revolution
5. Departure from the belle époque and clothes for the New Woman. Chanel's and Lamanova's double revolution
6. Chanel's Russian connection
7. French connection in Moscow? The 'fatherland of workers' and traces of Mikhail Bulgakov
8. Auguste Michel's incomplete project: a Palace of Soviets perfume
9. The seductive scent of power. Coco Chanel and Polina Zhemchuzhina Molotova. Two careers in the twentieth century
10. From another world. The smoke of the crematoria and the smell of Kolyma
11. After the war. Man cannot live on bread alone. The New Look and Stilyagi
12. Excursus: The grande dame of German film Olga Chekhova, cosmetics and the dream of eternal youth
13. How One World smells
14. Not only the Black Square: Malevich's perfume bottle

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