Comradely objects

Design and material culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s80s

By: Yulia Karpova, Christopher Breward (Editor), James Ryan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 February 2020

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248 Pages

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The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design by focusing on the notion of the comradely object as an agent of progressive social relations that state-sponsored Soviet design inherited from the avant-garde. It introduces a shared history of domestic objects, hand-made as well as machine made, mass-produced as well as unique, utilitarian as well as challenging the conventional notion of utility. This is a study of post-avant-garde Russian productivism at the intersection of intellectual history, social history and material culture studies, an account attentive to the complexities and contradictions of Soviet design.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Industry Reviews

'Through exploring everyday objects, Karpova offers an accessible means of understanding the complex world of late Soviet design.'
Museum Worlds

'In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written, and well-illustrated book, Yulia Karpova illuminates the history of design in post-Stalinist Russia. [...] Throughout her study, Karpova unearths a number of such transformations, thereby adding significant nuances to the field of Soviet art history, history of design, and study of material culture.'
The Russian Review, Masha Kowell, Los Angeles, CA

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