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Synthetic socialism : plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic / Eli Rubin

Rubin, Eli,i1975- [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2008]

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen

Literaturangaben

978-1-469-60677-4 ; 978-0-8078-3238-7

QD 120 QR 525 QW 300 LK 92900 MG 81010 MS 5560 NW 2000 NW 2050

 

Deutschland, DDR  Kunststoffindustrie  Verbraucherverhalten  Verbrauchslenkung  Alltagsgegenstand  Industriedesign 

 

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 s...