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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varga-Harris, Christine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Housing > Soviet Union.
Apartments > Soviet Union.
Communism and architecture > Soviet Union.
Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Architecture and state > Soviet Union.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
HOUSE & HOME > Design & Construction.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Apartments
Architecture and state
Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects
Communism and architecture
Housing
Soviet Union
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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