Gender and housing in Soviet Russia
Private life in a public space
By Lynne Attwood
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2286-5
- Pages: 272
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £25.00
- Published Date: July 2017
- BIC Category: European history, History, History & Archaeology, Russia, USSR, Soviet Union, Society & social sciences / Gender studies, gender groups, Humanities / 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Series: Gender in History
Description
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. Ultimately, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women.
The material, taken from Soviet magazines and journals, demonstrates how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and how they were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, the book also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life. More than a history of housing, the book is a social history of daily life which will appeal both to scholars and those with a general interest in the Soviet era.
Contents
Introduction
1 New byt, new woman, new forms of housing
2 The new economic policy
3 Housing cooperatives
4 Communes, hostels and barracks
5 The 'Second Socialist Offensive'
6 The retreat from new byt.
7 Communal living by default
8 The Great Patriotic War and its aftermath
9 The Khrushchev era: 'To every family its own apartment'
10 The Brezhnev year.
11 The Gorbachev era: The end of a Socialist housing policy
12 Personal tales
Conclusion
Index
Author
Lynne Attwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester
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