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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna AlekseyevaPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367662455ISBN 10: 0367662450 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 30 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 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: ConclusionReviewsAuthor InformationAnna Alekseyeva completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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