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Synthetic Socialism - Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,280
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Synthetic Socialism - Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (Paperback, New edition): Eli Rubin

Synthetic Socialism - Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (Paperback, New edition)

Eli Rubin

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Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany was neither a totalitarian state nor a niche society but rather a society shaped by the confluence of unique economic and political circumstances interacting with the concerns of ordinary citizens. To East Germans, Rubin says, plastic was a high-technology material, a symbol of socialism's scientific and economic superiority over capitalism. Most of all, the state and its designers argued, plastic goods were of a particularly special quality, not to be thrown away like products of the wasteful West. Rubin demonstrates that this argument was accepted by the mainstream of East German society, for whom the modern, socialist dimension of a plastics-based everyday life had a deep resonance.

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Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2014
First published: March 2014
Authors: Eli Rubin
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1510-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
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LSN: 1-4696-1510-X
Barcode: 9781469615103

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