Gender and housing in Soviet Russia: Private life in a public space

✍ Scribed by Lynne Attwood

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Series: Gender in History
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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