Everyday Soviet Utopias: Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism

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Anna Alekseyeva

Everyday Soviet Utopias

Planning, Design and the Aesthetics of Developed Socialism

Anna Alekseyeva

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Routledge
30 September 2020

Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

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.

By: Anna Alekseyeva
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367662455
ISBN 10: 0367662450
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 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: Conclusion

Anna Alekseyeva completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford.