Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
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Description
This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon.
Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers.
ISBN
9781421405667
Publication Date
3-2013
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore
Keywords
Soviet Union, Public Housing, Communism, Khrushchevka
Disciplines
European History | Political History | Social History
Recommended Citation
Harris, Steven E., "Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin" (2013). History and American Studies Books. 2.
https://scholar.umw.edu/hist_amst_books/2