Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia Kachurin, Pamela

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Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting tractors, smokestacks and symbols of collective modernity, cloth with which to mold its buyers into ideal Soviet citizens. Few of these designs ever saw mass production, and the experiment failed as propaganda–comrades clung to their traditional floral motifs–but it yielded bold and intriguing new designs.