An Archaeology of Socialism

by Victor Buchli

Book Overview

This highly original case study, which adopts a material culture perspective, is unprecedented in social and cultural histories of the Soviet period and provides a unique window on social relations. The author demonstrates how Moisei Ginzburg's Constructivist masterpiece, the Narkomfin Communal House, employed classic Marxist understandings of material culture in an effort to overturn capitalist and patriarchal social structures. Through the edifying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185973426X
• ISBN13: 9781859734261
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"