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Made in the USSR: Materialization of a New World

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The Soviet project existed not only in slogans: it materialized in metal, plastic, paper, sound, and ritual. This collection shows how material objects and infrastructures became intermediaries between the state, society, and everyday life: from electrification and the dream of a unified energy grid to the ballot and the ballot box, from Muzprom to children's toys, from homemade board games to vodka labels. What were the roles, networks, and practices of production, consumption, and exchange that created and reproduced the material system of the USSR?

The historians, anthropologists, and art historians whose articles comprise the book urge us to see objects as full participants in political, aesthetic, and social processes, explaining why some technologies became symbols of the future, others anchored civic rituals, and still others are returning today to museums, flea markets, and television shows.
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