Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room: Domestic Architecture Before and After 1991

by Kateryna Malaia

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501771205
• ISBN13: 9781501771200
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"