Nikolay Nikolaevich Pokrovskiy,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Everyday Life of a Soviet Person as a User of Household Appliances
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-2-8
The article continues to familiarize readers with the history of creation, internals and practices of using household appliances by Soviet citizens in their everyday life. This is the next work within the author’s cycle “Monuments of Science and Technology of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok”. In this cycle, on the basis of historical monuments from the fonds of the Museum of Science and Technology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an overview of some types from the fonds of the second half of the twentieth century, which were widespread in the USSR, is made. The previous articles dealt with universal and specialized household appliances for cooking by heating. The methodological basis of the work is formed by the basic principles of modern historical science, as well as the method of synthesis of the historical and technical study of the object. The scientific novelty of the work is associated with the introduction into the scientific circulation of previously unpublished items from the specified museum fonds. The article covers the period from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. This time frame is not accidental. Over the five years that had passed since the end of the war, significant progress was achieved in meeting the basic needs of the population, and the economy destroyed by the war was restored, which allowed the party and government to shift their attention to the problem of improving the life of Soviet people. Significant capacities of defense plants were freed up, reoriented to the production of consumer goods, including household appliances. The upper time frame was marked by the end of the Soviet era, when the new ideological paradigm changed both the very concept of Soviet life and the degree of presence of domestic appliances and equipment in the everyday life of Russians, reducing it to a minimum in subsequent years.
Publishing: 28/04/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 08/03/2021
How to cite: Pokrovskiy N.N. Everyday Life of a Soviet Person as a User of Household Appliances // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 2 (16), pp. 104–111. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-2-08.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2021
Keywords: history of technology; museology; history of everyday life; Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; technical heritage; socio-cultural space