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Accommodation and Agitation in Sevastopol: Redefining Socialist Space in the Postwar ‘City of Glory’

Karl D. Qualls

Karl D. Qualls

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...In late 1949 city officials stretched a banner that read ‘Sevastopolians! What have you done for the restoration of your hometown ’Slava Sevastopolia (hereafter Slava), 4 November 1949, p. 1. The translation of rodnoi gorod as ‘hometown...

Living in the Russian Present with a German Past: The Problems of Identity in the City of Kaliningrad.

Olga Sezneva

Olga Sezneva

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...I would like to thank the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies, London, for its generous support of this project.Radio Armenia once asked ‘Is it possible to foretell the future?’Answer: ‘Yes, that is no problem: we know exactly what...

Public Privacy in the Soviet Communal Apartment

Katerina Gerasimova

Katerina Gerasimova

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...The communal apartment (kommunalka) was an important feature of everyday life in the Soviet Union as well as being a place that has attracted the attention of foreign scholars interested in the unique forms of Soviet society.S. Boym, Common...

Soviet Exurbia: Dachas in Postwar Russia

Stephen Lovell

Stephen Lovell

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...Space was a state project for the Soviets. The post-revolutionary order was designed to create a new man by remaking his environment in the broadest sense: not only by eliminating political and social opposition, building factories...

Khrushchev's Children's Paradise: The Pioneer Palace, Moscow, 1958–1962

Susan E. Reid

Susan E. Reid

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...In this house the walls will teach.Should you ever be in Moscow, take a trip across the river to the green and pleasant area in the south-west of the city known today by its picturesque, traditional name, the Sparrow Hills (Vorob’evye...

Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

David Crowley

David Crowley

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Susan E. Reid

Susan E. Reid

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Socialist Spaces : Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc

Berg, 2002

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...The concept of this book emerged out of a symposium organized by the editors, ‘Socialist Artefacts, Places and Identities’. This event was hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in November 1998 with sponsorship from the British...

Consumption Studies and the Home

Victor Buchli

Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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An Anthropology of Architecture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...1 In the postwar period, consumption-oriented approaches emerged with particular force. This large body of literature on consumption studies and the home emerged predominantly from an intersection of Marxist analysis, feminist critique...