TY  - BOOK
AU  - Attwood,Lynne
TI  - Gender and housing in Soviet Russia: Private life in a public space
T2  - Gender in History
SN  - 9781847792631
AV  - HD7345 .G463 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Housing
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 9780719081453; 9780719081453; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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 Khrushchev era:'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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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