Everyday Soviet Utopias: Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism

ISBN-13: 9780367662455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Anna Alekseyeva

Opis

This book explores how Soviet intellectuals of the later Soviet decades sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal and malaise and relates developments in the Soviet Union to evolving social theory and postmodernism more broadly.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Social and economic control under developed socialism: themes and context

Part I: Everyday Urbanity

Chapter 3: Social life in the microdistrict: forging a new type of collective

Chapter 4: Humanised urban design: visions and realities of city planning

Part II: Domesticity and Khoziaistvo

Chapter 5: From ‘machine’ to ‘organism’: changing views on the nature of the living cell

Chapter 6: Khoziaistvo in the socialist city: organising byt and family life

Part III: Everyday Objects

Chapter 7: Managing consumption and rehabilitating the object-world

Chapter 8: Postmodernism with a Socialist Realist face?

Chapter 9: Conclusion

O autorze

Anna Alekseyeva completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford.