The Repair Society

E. Gerasimova (1) , Sofia Tchouikina (2, 3)

1 HSE - State University - Higher School of Economics
2 UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
3 ISP - Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique

Characterizing Soviet society as a "repair society," the authors find the specificity of Soviet goods to lie in the routine requirement that the owner-user must first work on them to make them fully functional, accommodating the object to their needs and themselves to the object's idiosyncrasies.

Domaines: Sociologie; Science politique

E. Gerasimova, Sofia Tchouikina. The Repair Society. Russian Studies in History, 2009, 48 (1), pp.58-74. ⟨10.2753/RSH1061-1983480104⟩. ⟨halshs-01904582⟩