Soviet Communal Living [electronic resource] : An Oral History of the Kommunalka /
Messana, P.author.
This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.
Description based upon print version of record.
Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1 "Uplotnienie": Filling Up; Chapter 2 White Army, Red Army; Chapter 3 The Visit to Lenin; Chapter 4 Like Life in Naple; Chapter 5 I, Princess Golitsyn; Chapter 6 Spy Stories; Chapter 7 The Black Crow; Chapter 8 Even the Baltics; Chapter 9 The Siege of Leningrad; Chapter 10 The Denunciation; Chapter 11 Summer 1948; Chapter 12 The Ambulance, the Dead, and the Others; Chapter 13 The American Legacy; Chapter 14 Jewish Poison in the Pots; Chapter 15 The Letter; Chapter 16 New Year's Eve Celebration
Chapter 17 How Thirty People Can Share an ApartmentChapter 18 The Gulag and the Roslovian Smell; Chapter 19 Ballad of a Soldier; Chapter 20 Lenins, Nothing But Lenins; Chapter 21 Dissidence; Chapter 22 The Passageway Room; Chapter 23 The Prostitute; Chapter 24 The French Lover; Chapter 25 Masha L. and the Spirit of the Kommunalka; Chapter 26 The English Girl and the Blackmarketeer; Chapter 27 An Officer in the Strategic Nuclear Force; Chapter 28 From Putsch to Putsch; Chapter 29 Seventeen Years after the Fall of the USSR; Chapter 30 Two Sisters through History; Appendix A; Appendix B
Appendix CAppendix D; Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.
Europe—History.
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Russia—History.
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Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
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