Back from the Future. A Review of Keti Chukhrov's Practising the Good

Keti Chukhrov’s recent book Practicing the Good: De- sire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism can be best evaluated as an intervention in contemporary theoretical and cul- tural debates. It presents a perspective that uses cultural production in ‘historical socialism’, as she calls it, as a model to rethink the connection of political economy and cultural production in terms of alternatives to con- temporary art and critical theory.