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Author Gronow, Jukka Author, author.

Title Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War.

Publication Info. Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society/SKS, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages).
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Series Studia fennica
Studia Fennica Historica ; 20
Studia Fennica.
Studia Fennica. Historica ; 20.
Summary "This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final goal, Communism. What was typical of this complex and extensive system of fashion was that it was always loyally subservient to the principles of the planned socialist economy. This did not by any means indicate that everything the designers and other fashion professionals did was dictated entirely from above by the central planning agencies. Neither did it mean that their professional judgment would have been only secondary to ideological and political standards set by the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, as our study shows, the Soviet fashion professionals had a lot of autonomy. They were eager and willing to exercise their own judgment in matters of taste and to set the agenda of beauty and style for Soviet citizens. The present book is the first comprehensive and systematic history of the development of fashion and fashion institutions in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Our study makes use of rich empirical and historical material that has been made available for the first time for scientific analysis and discussion. The main sources for our study came from the state, party and departmental archives of the former Soviet Union. We also make extensive use of oral history and the writings published in Soviet popular and professional press."
Funding Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation and SKS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subject Fashion -- Soviet Union -- History.
Fashion design -- Soviet Union -- History.
Fashion design -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Socialism and culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Cultural studies.
Fashion and society.
Fashion and textiles: design.
History of fashion.
Industrial -- commercial art and design.
Political ideologies.
Politics and government.
Socialism and left-of-centre democratic ideologies.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
The arts.
Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600
Fashion design. (OCoLC)fst01200123
Socialism and culture. (OCoLC)fst01123681
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Indexed Term Cultural history
Fashion design
Fashion history
Fashion industry
Socialism
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic book.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Zhuravlev, S. V. (Sergeĭ Vladimirovich) Author.
Other Form: Print version: Gronow, Jukka. Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society/SKS, 2015 (DLC) 2015495645
Standard No. 10.21435/sfh.20 doi
ISBN 9789522226655
9522226653
9789522226785
9522226785
9789522227522
9522227528
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