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By Lynne Attwood

This publication explores the housing challenge during the 70 years of Soviet heritage, altering political ideology on acceptable sorts of housing below socialism, successive executive guidelines on housing, and the that means and adventure of 'home' for Soviet electorate. Attwood examines using housing to change gender relatives, and the ways that family area was once differentially skilled through males and women.

Much of Attwood's fabric comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which allows her to illustrate how respectable principles on housing and lifestyle replaced through the process the Soviet period, and have been propagandised to the inhabitants. via a sequence of in-depth interviews, she additionally attracts at the stories of individuals with direct event of Soviet housing and household lifestyles. Attwood has produced not only a heritage of housing, yet a social heritage of everyday life as a way to allure either to students and people with a normal curiosity in Soviet history.

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