Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The will of the universe; 2 Class unconsciousness; 3 A home for a very industrious individual; 4 The world in the bathhouse, the bathhouse in the world; 5 Stalin and the housewife; 6 Golden calf, golden tooth; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
Modernism and the Making of the New Man is a history or Soviet architecture that is unique in that, instead of styles or great architects, it focuses on the design of communist subjectivity - the notion of the ""new man"". This perspective is key to understanding the dynamic and changing relationship between official communist culture and its idiosyncratic interpretations in the domain of the personal and the quotidian
Analysis
Communist Party
Leningrad
New Man
October Revolution
Soviet architecture
Soviet culture
Soviet society
Soviet subjectivity
aesthetics
communist culture
idealism
politics
pragmatism
productivist ethos
public baths
representational ethos
socialist modernity
socialist realism
socially minded women
tyranny
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 20, 2017)
