ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 focuses on the domestic space and argues that the socialist interior played a double role—both ideological and subversive—that fueled the communist phantasmagoria. Employing ethnographic material, the chapter analyses the typical socialist two-room apartment juxtaposing its prescribed role through design with its actual uses and experiences. The chapter presents and develops the argument that we may articulate a communist commodity as that which emerged in the gap between state-regulated norms and noncompliant practices.
