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An Archaeology of Socialism (Paperback, New edition)
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An Archaeology of Socialism (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Materializing Culture
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This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture
perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of
the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations.
The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist
masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist
understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn
capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edifying
effects of architectural forms, Ginzburg attempted to induce
socialist and feminist-inspired social and gender relations. The
author shows how, for the inhabitants, these principles manifested
themselves, from taste to hygiene to gender roles, and how
individuals variously appropriated architectural space and material
culture to cope with the conditions of daily life, from the
utopianism of the First Five Year Plan and Stalin's purges to the
collapse of the Soviet Union.This book makes a major contribution
to: the history of socialism in the Soviet Union and, more
generally, Eastern Europe; material culture studies; architectural
history; archaeology and social anthropology.
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