Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cosy Homes in the Khrushchev Era

Adler, K. H. (editor) / Hamilton, Carrie (editor) / Reid, Susan E. (author)

Homes and Homecomings ; 11-44

Gender & History Special Issue Book Series

2010-10-22

34 pages

9781444328240 , 9781444336504

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444328240.ch1

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

redefining cosiness, Enlightenment values of progress ‐ science and reason, modernist aesthetics , comfort, communist comfort, socialist modernism ‐ cosy homes, in the Khrushchev Era , condition of modernity, restless, transient, on the move ‐ regret and nostalgic yearning , Soviet home, within sights of Western attention ‐ contrast with Western prosperity , housing construction, visual dramatisation ‐ raising the living standards of many , obsession with domesticity ‐ Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, of a young girl buidling a home for her doll , ‘communist comfort’ or ‘socialist domesticity’ ‐ self‐contradictory as ‘fried snowballs’ , ‘communist comfort’ and propagation ‐ in Soviet mass housing, of 1950s–60s , homelessness, and not ‘homeyness’ ‐ valorised figure of modernity , image of homeliness, uiut, in domesticity ‐ context of Khrushchev‐era remodernisation