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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791731803321

Autore

Attwood Lynne

Titolo

Gender and housing in Soviet Russia [[electronic resource] ] : private life in a public space / / Lynne Attwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-84779-765-2

1-78170-176-8

1-84779-263-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Gender in History

Gender in history

Disciplina

363.50947/0904

Soggetti

Housing - Soviet Union

Women - Soviet Union - Social conditions

Sex role - Soviet Union

Sowjetunion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719081453; 9780719081453; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 years; 11 The Gorbachev era:the end of a socialist housing policy; 12 Personal tales; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood's material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on



housing and daily life changed during the course of the