Everyday Soviet Utopias: Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism Contributor(s): Alekseyeva, Anna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138497118 ISBN-13: 9781138497115 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 335.430 |
LCCN: 2019012683 |
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 274 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades - the 1970s and 1980s - 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, as some scholars have argued; attempts to envisage and enact Utopia remained as imaginative and creative as ever. The book considers what these utopian ideas looked like through housing schemes, layouts of districts and cities, design of objects and interiors, and proposals for the organisation of family and social life. Relating developments in the Soviet Union to evolving social theory and postmodernism more broadly, the book draws transnational parallels between the intellectual history of east and west in the late twentieth century. |