Taking The Soviet Union Apart Room By Room
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Taking The Soviet Union Apart Room By Room
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Author : Kateryna Malaia
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Taking The Soviet Union Apart Room By Room written by Kateryna Malaia and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with History categories.
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in their domestic spaces, urbanites transitioned to post-Soviet citizens. The two decades after the collapse of the USSR witnessed a major urban apartment remodeling boom. Malaia shows how, in the context of limited residential mobility, those remodeling and modifying their homes formed new lifestyles defined by increased spatial privacy. Remodeled interiors served as a material expression of a social identity above the poverty line, in place of the outdated Soviet signifiers of well-being. Connecting home improvement, self-reinvention, the end of state socialism, and the lived experience of change, Malaia puts together a comprehensive portrait of the era. Malaia shows both the stubborn continuities and the dramatic changes that accompanied the collapse of the USSR. Making the case for similarities throughout the former Soviet empire, this study is based on interviews and fieldwork done primarily in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine. Many of the buildings described are similar to those damaged or destroyed by Russian bombings or artillery fire following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A book about major historic events written through the lens of everyday life, Taking Soviet Union Apart is also about the meaning of home in a dramatically changing world.
Taking The Soviet Union Apart Room By Room
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Author : Kateryna Malaia
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Taking The Soviet Union Apart Room By Room written by Kateryna Malaia and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Architecture categories.
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in their domestic spaces, urbanites transitioned to post-Soviet citizens. The two decades after the collapse of the USSR witnessed a major urban apartment remodeling boom. Malaia shows how, in the context of limited residential mobility, those remodeling and modifying their homes formed new lifestyles defined by increased spatial privacy. Remodeled interiors served as a material expression of a social identity above the poverty line, in place of the outdated Soviet signifiers of well-being. Connecting home improvement, self-reinvention, the end of state socialism, and the lived experience of change, Malaia puts together a comprehensive portrait of the era. Malaia shows both the stubborn continuities and the dramatic changes that accompanied the collapse of the USSR. Making the case for similarities throughout the former Soviet empire, this study is based on interviews and fieldwork done primarily in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine. Many of the buildings described are similar to those damaged or destroyed by Russian bombings or artillery fire following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A book about major historic events written through the lens of everyday life, Taking Soviet Union Apart is also about the meaning of home in a dramatically changing world.
Rethinking Socialist Space In The Twentieth Century
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Author : Marcus Colla
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Rethinking Socialist Space In The Twentieth Century written by Marcus Colla and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Building Stalinism
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Author : Cynthia A. Ruder
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-30
Building Stalinism written by Cynthia A. Ruder and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with Political Science categories.
Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water. Yet the past looms heavy over these quotidian activities: the canal was built by Gulag inmates at the height of Stalinism and thousands died in the process. In this wide-ranging book, Cynthia Ruder argues that the construction of the canal physically manifests Stalinist ideology and that the vertical, horizontal, underwater, ideological, artistic and metaphorical spaces created by it resonate with the desire of the state to dominate all space within and outside the Soviet Union. Ruder draws on theoretical constructs from cultural geography and spatial studies to interpret and contextualise a variety of structural and cultural products dedicated to, and in praise of, this signature Stalinist construction project. Approached through an extensive range of archival sources, personal interviews and contemporary documentary materials these include a diverse body of artefacts - from waterways, structures, paintings, sculptures, literary and documentary works, and the Gulag itself. Building Stalinism concludes by analysing current efforts to reclaim the legacy of the canal as a memorial space that ensures that those who suffered and died building it are remembered. This is essential reading for all scholars working on the all-pervasive nature of Stalinism and its complex afterlife in Russia today.
New Directions In The Soviet Economy
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
New Directions In The Soviet Economy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Soviet Union categories.
New Directions In The Soviet Economy Economic Policy
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
New Directions In The Soviet Economy Economic Policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Economic development categories.
New Directions In The Soviet Economy
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
New Directions In The Soviet Economy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Soviet Union categories.
Cold War
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Author : Captivating History
language : en
Publisher: Captivating History
Release Date : 2020-10-31
Cold War written by Captivating History and has been published by Captivating History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-31 with categories.
Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Cold War The Space Race
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Joint Economic Committee
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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Joint Economic Committee written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Legislative hearings categories.
Collapse
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Author : Vladislav M. Zubok
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Collapse written by Vladislav M. Zubok and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.