Description: Communism on Tomorrow Street : Mass Housing and Everyday Life After Stalin, Hardcover by Harris, Steven E., ISBN 1421405660, ISBN-13 9781421405667, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Harris (history, U. of Mary Washington) presents a study of the transition from communal housing to single-family apartments in the Soviet Union instigated by Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. Harris describes Khrushchev's rule as a period of thaw from the Stalinist nightmare and that this housing transition was the most ordinary way people experienced it. He investigates mass housing as a site of construction by both the State and citizens. While showing the latter to be taking charge of building a classless society, Harris also considers these as possible outcomes influenced by the State pursuing the "New Soviet Man and Woman." He begins by tracing the origins of the quest for minimum living space requirements, the Bolshevik approach to answering it, and how the communalization of apartments led to the Khrushchev design. The first part of th thus focuses on the design to better understand what urban dwellers said about the apartments and their problems. The second part considers the politicization of housing allocation and in turn, the social divisions created by different paths to gaining a separate apartment. The final section examines how discourse on "the communist way of life" incorporated the separate apartments in heralding the communist future, the rise of communist consumerism, and how residents confronted furniture designers and housing officials about shortcomings. Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Communism on Tomorrow Street : Mass Housing and Everyday Life Aft
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Communism on Tomorrow Street : Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Public Policy / Social Policy, Regional, Sociology / Urban
Item Weight: 25.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Architecture, Social Science, History
Author: Steven E. Harris
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
