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Rubin, Eli.

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Plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history./
Author:	Rubin, Eli.
Description:	534 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3124.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3143103
ISBN:	9780496010752

Plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history.
Rubin, Eli.

Plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history. - 534 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3124.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.

This dissertation focuses on the design, production, consumption and representation of plastic consumer products in East Germany in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's. The project stems from several historiographical schools including economic and industrial history, history of technology, history of industrial design, history of consumerism, cultural history, material culture, history of everyday life and oral history. It speaks directly to a specific debate, particularly intense in Germany; namely, whether the totalitarian rule of the East German Communist Party, the SED, was based on "hard power," that is, the secret police the Wall and the Red Army or whether there was a "soft power" based on cultural notions of legitimation.

ISBN: 9780496010752Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Plastics and dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic: Towards an economic, consumer, design and cultural history.
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520 $a I hold that East Germany was a country deprived of natural resources and yet its leaders were committed to bringing a modern, even utopian consumer culture to its populace in hope of receiving popular legitimation. Plastics and plastic consumer goods were crucial to maintaining the SED's lofty goal of creating a socialist consumer paradise for two reasons. Plastics could imitate materials that were not available to the East German economy but were necessary for consumer goods, and plastics represented technological progress. The regime pushed heavily to substitute precious raw materials such as wood, cotton, and tin with plastics for economic reasons. However, in the process they created a distinctly East German "plastic aesthetic" present in the mainstream of everyday life. This aesthetic embodied certain values, such as functionality over aesthetic pleasure, that were accepted by a majority of East Germans. This acceptance, it is my belief, constituted an indirect legitimation for the East German state and the values of socialism. Essentially, the necessities of the planned economy created a constellation of economic values that were reflected in the aesthetic meanings of everyday objects.
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