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Soviet communal living : an oral history of the Kommunalka
- Title
- Soviet communal living : an oral history of the Kommunalka / Paola Messana.
- Author
- Messana, Paola.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 168 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the Kommunalka, the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union. The Kommunalka was perhaps the most important social experiment undertaken by the Soviet regime, having arguably as much if not more of an effect on the outlook of inhabitants than external political realities. Beginning in 1920, almost overnight, multiple Russian families were crammed together into single apartments, purposefully chosen to represent different classes in the same space. The intent was not just to level out class differences, but also to create spy systems within homes so as to extend the governments surveillance abilities and its control over daily life"--
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in oral history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in oral history
- Subjects
- Sozialgeschichte
- Russland
- Soviet Union
- Russia (Federation)
- Apartments > Soviet Union
- Shared housing > Soviet Union
- Communal living > Soviet Union
- Gemeinschaftswohnung
- HISTORY > Social History
- HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century
- HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Shared housing > Russia (Federation)
- Communal living > Russia (Federation)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword (starting p. xi) -- Foreword (starting p. xiii) / Vasily Rudich -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- ch. 1 "Uplotnienie": Filling Up (starting p. 7) -- ch. 2 White Army, Red Army (starting p. 11) -- ch. 3 The Visit to Lenin (starting p. 15) -- ch. 4 Like Life in Naples (starting p. 19) -- ch. 5 I, Princess Golitsyn (starting p. 23) -- ch. 6 Spy Stories (starting p. 25) -- ch. 7 The Black Crow (starting p. 31) -- ch. 8 Even the Baltics (starting p. 33) -- ch. 9 The Siege of Leningrad (starting p. 39) -- ch. 10 The Denunciation (starting p. 43) -- ch. 11 Summer 1948 (starting p. 49) -- ch. 12 The Ambulance, the Dead, and the Others (starting p. 53) -- ch. 13 The American Legacy (starting p. 57) -- ch. 14 Jewish Poison in the Pots (starting p. 61) -- ch. 15 The Letter (starting p. 67) -- ch. 16 New Year's Eve Celebration (starting p. 71) -- ch. 17 How Thirty People Can Share an Apartment (starting p. 75) -- ch. 18 The Gulag and the Roslovian Smell (starting p. 79) -- ch. 19 Ballad of a Soldier (starting p. 87) -- ch. 20 Lenins, Nothing But Lenins (starting p. 93) -- ch. 21 Dissidence (starting p. 97) -- ch. 22 The Passageway Room (starting p. 103) -- ch. 23 The Prostitute (starting p. 107) -- ch. 24 The French Lover (starting p. 111) -- ch. 25 Masha L. and the Spirit of the Kommunalka (starting p. 115) -- ch. 26 The English Girl and the Blackmarketeer (starting p. 123) -- ch. 27 An Officer in the Strategic Nuclear Forces (starting p. 129) -- ch. 28 From Putsch to Putsch (starting p. 135) -- ch. 29 Seventeen Years after the Fall of the USSR (starting p. 139) -- ch. 30 Two Sisters through History (starting p. 143) -- Appendix A (starting p. 145) -- Appendix B (starting p. 147) -- Appendix C (starting p. 149) -- Appendix D (starting p. 151) -- Notes (starting p. 157)
- ISBN
- 9780230110168
- 0230110169
- LCCN
- 2011000518
- 40019194851
- 99943312347
- OCLC
- ocn639162566
- 639162566
- SCSB-1591358
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library