Title: Summerfolk : a history of the Dacha, 1710-2000 /
Authors: Lovell, Stephen, 1972-
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Country homes Russia.; Country homes Soviet Union.; Country homes Russia (Federation); Russia Social life and customs; Soviet Union Social life and customs.; Russia (Federation) Social life and customs.
Abstract: "A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it. The book also demonstrates the crucial role that the dacha has played in the development of Russia's two most important cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, by providing residents with a refuge from the squalid and crowded metropolis. Like the suburbs in other nations, the dacha form of settlement served to alleviate social anxieties about urban growth."
Contents: Prehistory -- Between city and court : the middle third of the nineteenth century -- The late imperial dacha boom -- Between arcadia and suburbia : the dacha as a cultural space, 1860-1917 -- The making of the Soviet dacha, 1917-1941 -- Between consumption and ownership : exurban life, 1941-1986 -- Post-Soviet suburbanization? : dacha settlements in contemporary Russia.