Communism on tomorrow street
Subtitle: Soviet mass housing and the quest for a new way of life under Khrushchev
By: Steven E. Harris
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781421405667
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Communism and architecture; Housing; Housing policy; Public housing; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: moving to the separate apartment; title: Making the separate apartment; title: The Soviet path to minimum living space and the single-family apartment; title: Khrushchevka: the Soviet answer to the housing question; title: Distributing housing, reordering society; title: The waiting list; title: Class and mass housing; title: Living and consuming the Communist way of life; title: The mass housing community; title: New furniture; title: The politics of complaint; title: Conclusion: Soviet citizens' answer to the housing question.