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

Stories of House and Home : : Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years / / Christine Varga-Harris.

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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. Decent housing was deemed the key to a healthy, productive home life, whi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Varga-Harris, Christine,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 24 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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