Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia

This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. She examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood's material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, she also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life. Attwood has produced not just a history of housing, but a social history of daily life which will appeal both to scholars and those with a general interest in Soviet history.

ISBN 0719081459   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780719081453 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 454 Publisher Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Imprint Manchester University Press   Series title Gender in History Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 01 Jan 2010   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 363.50947   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

1		New byt, new woman, new forms of housing
2		The New Economic Policy
3		Housing cooperatives
4		Communes, hostels and barracks
5		The 'second socialist offensive'
6		The retreat from new byt
7		Communal living by default
8		The Great Patriotic War and its aftermath
9		The Khrushchevera: 'To every family its own apartment'
10		The Brezhnev years
11		The Gorbachev era: the end of a socialist housing policy
12		Personal tales
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
		Index

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