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Communism on Tomorrow Street: The Soviet Union’s Revolution in Mass Housing after Stalin Steven E. Harris George Mason University February 19, 2014. Yurii Pimenov , “ Wedding on Tomorrow Street ” (1962 ). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Communism on Tomorrow Street: The Soviet Union’s Revolution in
Mass Housing after Stalin
Steven E. Harris
George Mason UniversityFebruary 19, 2014
Yurii Pimenov, “Wedding on Tomorrow Street” (1962)
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Example of elite, pre-revolutionary housing in St. Petersburg: the Moruzi House, 24/27 Liteinyi prospekt. Source: http://www.sntpeters.com
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THE “KOMMUNALKA” – THE COMMUNAL APARTMENT
Floor plan of a contemporary St. Petersburg kommunalka. Each room is accessible off the common central hallway; measurements in feet. Source: http://kommunalka.colgate.edu/cfm/site_map.cfm
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THE “KOMMUNALKA” – THE COMMUNAL APARTMENT
Source: http://kommunalka.colgate.edu
The kitchen of a kommunalka.
The long corridor of a kommunalka.
A family drinking tea at the dining room table in their own room. A family’s room served several functions.
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“A SEPARATE APARTMENT FOR EVERY FAMILY”
Nikita S. Khrushchev
* Leader of the Soviet Union, 1953-1964
A Khrushchev-era apartment building in St. Petersburg, October 2010. Photographed by the author.
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Paris
Brasilía Chicago
Leningrad
Source: James Holston, The Modernist City (Chicago, 1989), 176
Source: Dmitrii Gubin et al., Real’nyi Peterburg (St. Petersburg, 1999), 190-91.
Source: Norma Evenson, Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 (New Haven, 1979), 262.
Source: Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto (Chicago, 1998), 244.
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Floor plans for a four-apartment section in mass housing built under Khrushchev. K. Metel’skii, “Predlozheniia proektirovshchikov MITEPa,” Arkhitektura SSSR, no. 6 (1962); 13.
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Ilya Ehrenberg (1891-1967)
author of The Thaw (1954)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
* author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
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Sectional furniture in a living/dining room. This room was part of a 1959 furniture exhibition in Moscow. Source: N. Luppov, “O vsesoiuznom konkurse na luchshuiu mebel’,” Dekorativnoe iskusstvo SSSR, no. 5 (1959): 9.
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MOVING TO THE SEPARATE APARTMENT
Yuri Pimenov, “A Lyrical House-Warming”
Source: Rabotnitsa, no. 5 (1967), 10.
Yuri Pimenov, “Wedding on Tomorrow Street” (1962)
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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MASS HOUSING AND THE COLD WAR:THE “KITCHEN DEBATE”
Khrushchev and Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow, 1959