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Socialist Spaces - Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover)
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Socialist Spaces - Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover)
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What were Socialist Spaces? The Eastern Bloc produced distinctive
spaces, some of which were fashioned from ideological templates,
such as the monumental parade grounds and Red Squares where
communist leaders could receive tributes, or new factory cities
with towering chimneys and glittering palaces of culture. But what
of the grimy toilet in the communal apartment or the forlorn ruins
left after the Second World War?This book explores the
representation, meanings and uses of space in the socialist
countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union between 1947 and
1991. The essays - written from different disciplinary perspectives
- investigate the extent to which actual spaces conformed to the
dominant political order in the region. Should, for instance, the
creation of private spaces, such as the Russian dacha and the Czech
chata, be understood as acts of appropriation in which lives were
fashioned against the collective or, alternatively, as 'gifts'
given by the State in return for quiescence? Whilst monuments and
public spaces were designed to relay official ideology, one of the
most notable features of the events that marked the end of the Bloc
was the way that they became sites of dissent. Examining the myriad
ways in which space was used and conceived within socialist
society, this book makes an essential contribution to Eastern
European and Soviet Studies and provides significant new angles on
the factors that underpinned socialism's eventual downfall.
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