LEADER 03002nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910808676603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-7048-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000037621 035 $a(EBL)565759 035 $a(OCoLC)659579845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414326 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11277673 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414326 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395629 035 $a(PQKB)10636196 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC565759 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL565759 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408645 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000037621 100 $a20090828d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCold war on the home front $ethe soft power of midcentury design /$fGreg Castillo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4691-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; INTRODUCTION: Domesticity as a Weapon; 1 Household Affluence and Its Discontents; 2 Cultural Revolutions in Tandem; 3 Better Living through Modernism; 4 Stalinism by Design; 5 People's Capitalism and Capitalism's People; 6 The Trojan House Goes East; 7 Consuming Socialism; EPILOGUE: Critical Masses; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index 330 $aAmid 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, the impromptu Kitchen Debate has been widely viewed as the opening skirmish in a propaganda war over which superpower could provide a better standard of living for its citizens. However, as Greg Castillo shows in Cold War on the Home Front, this debate and the American National Exhibition itself w 517 3 $aSoft power of midcentury design 606 $aConsumer goods$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aConsumer goods$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCapitalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocialism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 606 $aPropaganda, American 606 $aPropaganda, Soviet 615 0$aConsumer goods$xHistory 615 0$aConsumer goods$xHistory 615 0$aCapitalism$xHistory 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 615 0$aPropaganda, American. 615 0$aPropaganda, Soviet. 676 $a339.4/709045 700 $aCastillo$b Greg$01719938 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808676603321 996 $aCold war on the home front$94118185 997 $aUNINA