ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the professional intelligentsia’s visions for everyday life under developed socialism. It considers everyday spaces, everyday objects and everyday aesthetics. The book explores intellectuals’ suppositions about how to achieve these visions and the respective roles of the specialist and the Soviet citizen in shaping the everyday environment. It illustrates how professionals reconsidered the kind of top-down technocratic control and interventionism that had defined the period of Khrushchev modernism. The book proposes that the apparent turn towards individuality and private life in the intellectual history of developed socialism should not be interpreted as a descent into subjective indifference. It also illustrates that despite the numerous parallels between the intellectual trajectories of Soviet professionals and western intellectuals, Soviet imaginings nonetheless remained consonant with developed socialist values.
