Property of communists
Subtitle: the urban housing program from Stalin to Khrushchev
By: Mark B. Smith.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780875804231
Subjects: Housing -- Soviet Union -- History; Housing policy -- Soviet Union -- History; Home ownership -- Soviet Union -- History; Real property -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; City and town life -- Soviet Union -- History; Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History; Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1945-1991; Soviet Union -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Limits of sacrifice; title: pt. 1. From sacrifice to paradise; title: Reconstruction and its legacies, 1944-1950; title: The launch of the mass housing program, 1951-1957; title: To the communist future, 1958-1964; title: pt. 2. The nexus of property and welfare; title: Possibilities and paradoxes of ownership; title: Individual ownership, welfare, and the Soviet order; title: Conclusion: Paradise in grey.