Attwood Gender and housing in Soviet Russia

Private life in a public space
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-263-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Gender in History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attwood, Lynne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynne Attwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester