Cold War on the home front : the soft power of midcentury design /

Amid a display of sunshine-yellow electric appliances in a model home at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon squared off on the merits of their respective economic systems. One of the signature events of the cold war...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castillo, Greg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
Consumer goods > United States > History > 20th century.
Consumer goods > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Capitalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Socialism > United States > 20th century.
Cold War.
Propaganda, American.
Propaganda, Soviet.
Biens de consommation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Biens de consommation > URSS > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Guerre froide.
Propagande américaine.
Propagande soviétique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Capitalism
Consumer goods
Propaganda, American
Propaganda, Soviet
Socialism
Soviet Union
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Domesticity as a weapon
  • Household affluence and its discontents
  • Cultural revolutions in tandem
  • Better living through modernism
  • Stalinism by design
  • People's capitalism and capitalism's people
  • The Trojan house goes east
  • Consuming socialism
  • Epilogue. Critical masses
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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