{"product_id":"communism-on-tomorrow-street-steven-e-harris-9781421405667","title":"Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life After Stalin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed \u003ci\u003ekhrushchevka\u003c\/i\u003e. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev's thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the \u003ci\u003ekhrushchevka\u003c\/i\u003e, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers. \u003ci\u003eCommunism on Tomorrow Street\u003c\/i\u003e also demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the \"housing question\" that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven E. Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421405660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421405667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Woodrow Wilson Center Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2013","brand":"Steven E. Harris","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065556545791,"sku":"9781421405667","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8ce6ea4-ad8f-40d3-8071-97cf01c388f7.jpg?v=1768675750","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/communism-on-tomorrow-street-steven-e-harris-9781421405667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}