Made in the USSR: Materialization of a New World

This collection shows how material objects and infrastructures became intermediaries between the state, society, and everyday life: from electrification and the dream of a unified energy system to bulletins and ballot boxes, from "Muzprom" to children's toys, from homemade board games to vodka labels. 

What were the roles, networks, production practices, consumption, and exchange that created and reproduced the material system of the USSR? Historians, anthropologists, and art historians, whose articles make up the book, urge us to see things as full-fledged participants in political, aesthetic, and social processes, explaining why some technologies became symbols of the future, others solidified civic rituals, and others are returning today to museums, flea markets, and TV shows.