Made in the USSR: Materialization of a New World

Made in the USSR: Materialization of a New World

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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.

Printhouse: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie

Series: Culture of Everyday Life

Age restrictions: 18+

Year of publication: 2026

ISBN: 9785444827482

Number of pages: 352

Size: 205х130х22 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 435 g

ID: 1734391

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.

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