Cold War on the home front : the soft power of midcentury design /
Castillo, Greg.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
c2010.
Greg Castillo presents an illustrated history of the persuasive impact of model homes, appliances, and furniture in Cold War propaganda.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Greg Castillo presents an illustrated history of the persuasive impact of model homes, appliances, and furniture in Cold War propaganda.
Consumer goods
Consumer goods
Capitalism
Socialism
Cold War.
Propaganda, American.
Propaganda, Soviet.