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Informationen zum Autor Lynne Attwood is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester Klappentext This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks 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. Zusammenfassung This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 year. 11 The Gorbachev era: The end of a Socialist housing policy 12 Personal tales ConclusionIndex
