Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic

by Eli Rubin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807832383
• ISBN13: 9780807832387
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"