Troshin A.
Abstract. The article is devoted to the history of manufacturing and existing of art plastics in the USSR in the 1950s studied in the context of social stratification problem. In the opinion of the author decorative and applied art of that period was a sort of non-verbal language, a way of self-description for the some soviet middle class groups.
Key words: decorative and applied art, art plastics, middle class, history of the USSR
Troshin Andrei Alekseevich,
Ph.D., Russian Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow)
e-mail: troshin_a@mtu-net.ru