Stories of House and Home : Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years /

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This book 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 with its own apartment. Decent housing was deemed the key to a healthy, productive home life, which was esse...

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Autor principal: Varga-Harris, Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Housing.
Communism and architecture.
Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects.
Architecture and state.
Apartments.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HOUSE & HOME > Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
Communisme et architecture > URSS.
Appartements > URSS.
Architecture and state > Soviet Union.
Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Communism and architecture > Soviet Union.
Apartments > Soviet Union.
Housing > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Novostroika
  • Building a Socialist home befitting the Space Age
  • Foundations: revolution realized
  • Interior spaces: building the Socialist person from within
  • Liminal places: corridors, courtyards and reviving Socialist society
  • The quest for normalcy: coming home, settling down, moving forward
  • Constructing Soviet identity and reviving Socialism on the home front.

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