Lynne Attwood, Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia: Private Life in a Public Space

摘要

Lynne Attwood provides an overview of the 'intractable problem' (p. 1) of housing from the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet state in 1991, exploring the manifold complications crowded conditions create for private life. Her themes include the Bolshevik policy of social justice, collective leisure, the cooperative movement, communal apartments, housing construction, advocacy of individual family apartments, and manipulations of housing shortages for punishment, incentives, and rewards.