Soviet Communal Living
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Soviet Communal Living

An Oral History of the Kommunalka

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eBook - PDF

Soviet Communal Living

An Oral History of the Kommunalka

About this book

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka, ' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. contents
  6. Series Editors’ Foreword
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1 ā€œUplotnienieā€: Filling Up
  10. CHAPTER 2 White Army, Red Army
  11. CHAPTER 3 The Visit to Lenin
  12. CHAPTER 4 Like Life in Naples
  13. CHAPTER 5 I, Princess Golitsyn
  14. CHAPTER 6 Spy Stories
  15. CHAPTER 7 The Black Crow
  16. CHAPTER 8 Even the Baltics
  17. CHAPTER 9 The Siege of Leningrad
  18. CHAPTER 10 The Denunciation
  19. CHAPTER 11 Summer 1948
  20. CHAPTER 12 The Ambulance, the Dead, and the Others
  21. CHAPTER 13 The American Legacy
  22. CHAPTER 14 Jewish Poison in the Pots
  23. CHAPTER 15 The Letter
  24. CHAPTER 16 New Year’s Eve Celebration
  25. CHAPTER 17 How Thirty People Can Share an Apartment
  26. CHAPTER 18 The Gulag and the Roslovian Smell
  27. CHAPTER 19 Ballad of a Soldier
  28. CHAPTER 20 Lenins, Nothing But Lenins
  29. CHAPTER 21 Dissidence
  30. CHAPTER 22 The Passageway Room
  31. CHAPTER 23 The Prostitute
  32. CHAPTER 24 The French Lover
  33. CHAPTER 25 Masha L. and the Spirit of the Kommunalka
  34. CHAPTER 26 The English Girl and the Blackmarketeer
  35. CHAPTER 27 An Offi cer in the Strategic Nuclear Forces
  36. CHAPTER 28 From Putsch to Putsch
  37. CHAPTER 29 Seventeen Years after the Fall of the USSR
  38. CHAPTER 30 Two Sisters through History
  39. Appendix A
  40. Appendix B
  41. Appendix C
  42. Appendix D
  43. Notes