A new culture took root in modern Russia
Taking different periods of the century as examplesone can see the dynamics of attitudes toward household items and home spacesfrom the revolutionary minimalism of the 1990s to the stagnant hoarding of Brezhnev. The latterfor exampleis primarily a fear of scarcitya fear of loss of stabilityand a quest for petty bourgeois luxury in friendly republics Yugoslavian floor lampsRomanian walls and Czechoslovakian pottery. With the appearance of Zero in Russiathey began to talk about exemplary luxury among the wealthy.
But ordinary residents are also trying to buy new thingskeeping old cell phonesboots C Level Contact List and clothes that are already out of date. The same Komsomolskaya Pravda that now sings about rubber boots wrote in Soviet times that wanting jeans is immoralmaterialisticminingetc. Soin my opinionthe sense of well-being that befalls us in the ages is therapeutic. Psychologists say in interviews that this part of us comes out of the ghetto with at least a little bit ofdamn itdressed to walk.
At the same timethe myth of everyday life in. Olga Rubzovaa cultural scientist and curator of educational programsexplained that he has become a certain status symbol for the new creative intellectualshipsters and creative classes. Representatives of these groups noted the strangeness of life in previous generations and laughed at the so-called grandmother's choice of dusty wallsplump couchesplastic flowers in vases and mezzaninesbalconies piled high with wintering supplies and bicycle shelves. Balcony sled. |
