By Steven E. Harris
This attention-grabbing and deeply researched publication examines how, starting below Khrushchev in 1953, a new release of Soviet voters moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin period to fashionable single-family flats, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that relocating to a separate residence allowed traditional city dwellers to event Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris essentially shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon.
Harris makes a speciality of the various contributors wanting to reap the benefits of and effect the hot lifestyle embodied by means of the khrushchevka, its furnishings, and its linked buyer items. He examines actions of nationwide and native politicians, planners, firm managers, staff, furnishings designers and designers, elite corporations (centrally thinking about developing cooperative housing), and traditional city dwellers. Communism on the following day highway additionally demonstrates the connection of Soviet mass housing and concrete making plans to foreign efforts at resolving the «housing query» that were studied because the 19th century and resulted in housing advancements in Western Europe, the USA, and Latin the US in addition to the USSR.
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15° The architect G. " Simonov drew on the English cottage as a model. "In the English cottage, a small room, connected to the kitchen, is usually placed downstairs; on the second floor are the bedrooms, bathroom and toilet. "5' Split-level apartments were rare but not unheard of in elite 1930s housing as illustrated by I. " In this context, "diversity" was coded language for class differences. " He admired how its public and intimate spaces were spatially interconnected. "Buildings of 'public' [obshchestvennoe] use are always at the center of [an estate's] composition.
As Mikhailov readily acknowledged, this spatial division between public and private spaces was rooted in the country estate of an aristocrat. Adopting such a model and referencing its source would have been anathema to the Bolsheviks and radical architects in the wake of the Revolution, when their solution to the housing question entailed expropriations of private property and making a clean break from the past. How times had changed. The recreation of a family-oriented, spatially differentiated model for apartments was now thoroughly socialist.
To be sure, the Bolsheviks sought to go beyond these goals by building new housing for the new society of the communist future. " Far from being "weak," the Bolshevik approach sanctioned an infinite expansion of state responsibilities from fixing the problems of today to building the housing of tomorrow. Allocating housing was one of the most important of these responsibilities and, as I argue in this chapter and the next, it would shape in unexpected ways the design of mass housing under Khrushchev.