Gender and housing in Soviet Russia : private life in a public space /

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This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. She examines th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Attwood, Lynne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2010
Series:Gender in history.
Subjects:
Geschichte
Housing > Soviet Union.
Women > Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Sex role > Soviet Union.
Femmes > URSS > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > URSS.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Housing
Sex role
Women > Social conditions
Wohnungsnot
Wohnungspolitik
Geschlechterverhältnis
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New byt, new woman, new forms of housing
  • The New Economic Policy
  • Housing cooperatives
  • Communes, hostels and barracks
  • The "second socialist offensive"
  • The retreat from new byt
  • Communal living by default
  • The Great Patriotic War and its aftermath
  • The Khrushchev era : "to every family its own apartment"
  • The Brezhnev years
  • The Gorbachev era : the end of a socialist housing policy
  • Personal tales.

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