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Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe

Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe


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This book explores the material and visual world of the socialist Bloc from the late 1940s to the late 1960s. The essays, by authors from a range of disciplines, examine the forms and uses of material objects that made up the environment of life behind the 'Iron Curtain', and investigates the particular ways in which these objects came to represent the often divergent aspirations of regimes and peoples in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.The two decades after the end of the Second World War considered here constitute two contrasting periods: that of post-war Stalinism and the 'sovietization' or 'stalinization' of Eastern Europe; and, from the mid-1950s, the period of destalinization and relative cultural liberalization known as the Thaw. During the Thaw, consumerism and a moderate fashion consciousness began to be tolerated or even encouraged to varying degrees in different parts of the Bloc. Style, regarded as a suspect notion under Stalin, became a legitimate and even urgent issue. What forms of dress, home furnishings and housing, as well as of fine art, would provide a stimulating environment that could meet the physical and ideological needs of -- and give shape to -- modern, socialist life? Challenging the assumption that all cultural norms were generated and effectively imposed by Moscow, essays in this anthology investigate the interactions and exchanges between the countries of the Eastern Bloc and and ask how, even in socialist economies, the consumption of material objects -- or the refusal to consume -- could project personal and collective identities and even articulate resistance.Anyone who seeks to understand the effects of state socialism on life in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, or who is interested in the intersection of politics with art, design and material culture will find this book absorbing and illuminating.

About the Author :
Susan E. Reid is Lecturer in Russian Visual Arts, University of Sheffield. David Crowley is Tutor in the History of Design, Royal College of Art.

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'Style and Socialism is an enjoyable and valuable addition to East European historiography. It offers glimpses into real ilfe and snippets of intriguing information about subjects' negotiations with the state. The volume is also a timely reminder to all scholars of the period that the traces of material life under socialism are quickly disappearing, as are the people with memories about life during the Thaw.'Balkan Academic News'The authors in this book find different ways to explore socialist societies through the ways in which goods have been consumed (or not consumed). For them this is a means of considering, how even in socialist economies, personal and collective identities were articulated through consumerism.'Journal of Contemporary History'Style and Socialism provides a fascinating glimpse into ... complex and often contested social realities through the investigation of a wide range of phenomenon.'Centropa'A pioneering collection of essays about everyday life in


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781859732397
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Berg Publishers
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1859732399
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe


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