Research Catalog

Title

Stories of house and home : Soviet apartment life during the Khrushchev years / Christine Varga-Harris.

Author

Varga-Harris, Christine

Publication

• Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
• ©2015

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Description

xvii, 289 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Communism and architecture
• Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects
• Communism and architecture > Soviet Union
• Apartments > Soviet Union
• Housing > Soviet Union
• Architecture, Domestic > Political aspects > Soviet Union
• Architecture, Domestic > Soviet Union
• Architecture and state > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Novostroika -- Building a Socialist home befitting the Space Age -- Foundations: revolution realized -- Interior spaces: building the Socialist person from within -- Liminal places: corridors, courtyards and reviving Socialist society -- The quest for normalcy: coming home, settling down, moving forward -- Constructing Soviet identity and reviving Socialism on the home front.

ISBN

• 9780801453076
• 0801453070

LCCN

• 2015015432
• 40025492484

OCLC

• 909319518
• ocn909319518
• SCSB-5831376

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries