OPEN AIR "CULTURAL-POLITICAL COMPLEX": CENTRAL PARK OF THE 1930s vs CLUBS PARKS OF THE 1920s (THE CASE OF SVERDLOVSK) Cover Image

КУЛЬТУРНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЙ КОМБИНАТ» ПОД ОТКРЫТЫМ НЕБОМ: ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ ПАРК 1930х vs КЛУБНЫЕ САДЫ 1920х.: СЛУЧАЙ СВЕРДЛОВСКА
OPEN AIR "CULTURAL-POLITICAL COMPLEX": CENTRAL PARK OF THE 1930s vs CLUBS PARKS OF THE 1920s (THE CASE OF SVERDLOVSK)

Author(s): Elena Sergeevna Kochukhova, E. Rabinovich
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Cultural history, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Environmental interactions, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Sociology of Politics
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: Leisure Park; Soviet everyday life; working club; Sverdlovsk; city culture of the 1930s; Soviet culture; Ural culture;

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the breaking of ideals of parks building in the USSR (at the turn of the 1920s-30s) during the creation of the Central culture and leisure park in Sverdlovsk. On the base of the materials of Soviet newspapers the authors reveal the typical recreation practices in city parks and clubs. Criticism of these practices is investigated as an element of new cultural tendencies. The metaphor of "cultural-political complex" is revealed through the idea of recreation as a productive force that makes up and develops human resources. Goals and tasks of new Central parks correspond with the project of the Sverdlovsk's Central park. The reasons that raised the question of implementation of this project are shown. The authors reconstruct the program, offered to the Park visitors in the early years of its work.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 6-18
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian
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