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Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room
2023
Overview
Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by
Room investigates what happens to domestic
spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a
socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how
Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of
inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late
1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries
transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in
their domestic spaces, urbanites transitioned to post-Soviet
citizens.
The two decades after the collapse of the USSR witnessed a major
urban apartment remodeling boom. Malaia shows how, in the context
of limited residential mobility, those remodeling and modifying
their homes formed new lifestyles defined by increased spatial
privacy. Remodeled interiors served as a material expression of a
social identity above the poverty line, in place of the outdated
Soviet signifiers of well-being. Connecting home improvement,
self-reinvention, the end of state socialism, and the lived
experience of change, Malaia puts together a comprehensive portrait
of the era.
Malaia shows both the stubborn continuities and the dramatic
changes that accompanied the collapse of the USSR. Making the case
for similarities throughout the former Soviet empire, this study is
based on interviews and fieldwork done primarily in Kyiv and Lviv,
Ukraine. Many of the buildings described are similar to those
damaged or destroyed by Russian bombings or artillery fire
following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A book
about major historic events written through the lens of everyday
life, Taking Soviet Union Apart is also about the meaning
of home in a dramatically changing world.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of
Subject
/ Architecture & Architectural History
/ ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
/ Architecture and society-Former Soviet republics
/ Architecture and society-Soviet Union
/ Architecture, Domestic-Social aspects-Former Soviet republics
/ Architecture, Domestic-Social aspects-Soviet Union
/ ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential
/ domestic spaces and the Soviet Union
/ Europe
/ Former Soviet republics-Social conditions
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ post-Soviet modernist housing
/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union
ISBN
9781501771200, 1501771205, 1501771213, 9781501771217, 9781501771224, 1501771221
