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. Ultimately, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women.
The material, taken from Soviet magazines and journals, demonstrates how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the...
This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropria...
The contributors explore how the new choices available to people after the collapse of the Soviet Union have interacted with and influenced gender identities and gender, and how choice has become one of the driving forces of class-formation in countries which were, in the Soviet era, supposedly classless.
The contributors explore how the new choices available to people after the collapse of the Soviet Union have interacted with and influenced gender ide...
