Socialist spaces : sites of everyday life in the Eastern Bloc / edited by David Crowley and Susan E. Reid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crowley, David, 1966-

Reid, Susan Emily.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and architecture--Europe, Eastern.

Communism and architecture.

Communism and architecture--Soviet Union.

Space (Architecture)--Europe, Eastern.

Space (Architecture).

Space (Architecture)--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2002.

Contents:

Socialist spaces : sites of everyday life in the Eastern Bloc / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid

Accommodation and agitation in Sevastopol : redefining socialist space in the postwar 'city of glory' / Karl D. Qualls

Living in the Russian present with a German past : the problems of identity in the city of Kaliningrad / Olga Sezneva

The role of monumental sculpture in the construction of socialist space in stalinist Hungary / Reuben Fowkes

Wandering the streets of socialism : a discussion of the street photography of Arno Fischer and Ursula Arnold / Astrid Ihle

Soviet exurbia : dachas in postwar Russia / Stephen Lovell

Weekend getaways : the chata, the tramp and the politics of private life in post-1968 Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren

Khrushchev's children's paradise : the Pioneer Palace, Moscow, 1958 / Susan E. Reid

Warsaw interiors : the public life of private spaces, 1949-65 / David Crowley

Public privacy in the Soviet communal apartment / Katerina Gerasimova

Curtains : décor for the end of empire / Mark Allen Svede.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859735339

185973538X

OCLC:

50234979