Borders of Socialism : Private Spheres of Soviet Russia / edited by L. Siegelbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siegelbaum, Lewis H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russia--History.

Russia.

Europe, Eastern--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Russian, Soviet, and East European History.

Local Subjects:

Russian, Soviet, and East European History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2006.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This fascinating book argues that in Russia the relations between culture and nation, art and life, commodity and trash, often diverged from familiar Western European or American versions of modernity. The essays show how public and private overlapped and shaped each other, creating new perspectives on individuals and society in the Soviet Union.

Contents:

Introduction : Mapping private spheres in the Soviet context / Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Claiming property : the Soviet-era private plots as "women's turf" / Esther Kingston-Mann

The art market and the construction of Soviet Russian culture / Andrew Jenks

Separate yet governed : the representation of Soviet property relations in civil law and public discourse / Charles Hachten

Cars, cars, and more cars : the Faustian bargain of the Brezhnev era / Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Domestic life and the activist wife in the 1930s Soviet Union / Rebecca Balmas Neary

A hearth for a dog : the paradoxes of Soviet pet keeping / Amy Nelson

The meaning of home : "the only bit of the world you can have to yourself" / Susan E. Reid

"I know all the secrets of my neighbors" : the quest for privacy in the era of the separate apartment / Steven E. Harris

Private matters or public crimes : the emergence of domestic hooliganism in the Soviet Union, 1939-1966 / Brian LaPierre

A symbiosis of errors : the personal, professional, and political in the Kirov region, 1931-1941 / Larry E. Holmes

Friends in private, friends in public : the phenomenon of the Kompaniia among Soviet youth in the 1950s and 1960s / Juliane Furst

The 1959 Liriki-Fiziki debate : going public with the private? / Susan Costanzo.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9781403984548

1403984549

OCLC:

124039436