Format:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781501701849
Content:
Stories of House and Home is a social and cultural history of the massive construction campaign that Khrushchev instituted in 1957 to resolve the housing crisis in the Soviet Union and to provide each family its own apartment
Note:
STORIES OF HOUSE AND HOME -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Kommunalki, Khrushchëvki -- 1. Building a Socialist Home Befitting the Space Age -- 2. Foundations: Revolution Realized -- 3. Interior Spaces: Building the Socialist Person from Within -- 4. Liminal Places: Corridors, Courtyards, and Reviving Socialist Society -- 5. The Quest for Normalcy: Coming Home, Settling Down, Moving Forward -- 6. Constructing Soviet Identity and Reviving Socialism on the Home Front -- Conclusion: Beyond the Housing Campaign that "Shook the World" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Varga-Harris, Christine Stories of House and Home Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2015 ISBN 9780801453076
Language:
English
Keywords:
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