Name: Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic
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Author: Rubin, Eli
ISBN: 9781469615103

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Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic

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Physical Book

Author

Eli Rubin

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.9 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781469615103

Synopsis "Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic"

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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