Gift/Knowledge Relations at the Exhibition of Gifts to Soviet Leaders
Gift/Knowledge Relations at the Exhibition of Gifts to Soviet Leaders

Summary/Abstract: This is a study of audience reactions to the exhibition Gifts to Soviet Leaders (Kremlin Museum, Moscow, 2006) that ranges from comments in the viewers' response book to the decision of the Kremlin Museum to gift a copy of the exhibition catalog to President Vladimir Putin for his fifty-fifth bithday in 2007. My goal is to demonstrate how relations of knowledge, which configure this complex post-Soviet audience in the form of social memory, perform the gift and, vice versa, how gift giving performs these relations of knowledge and power.

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