Khrushchyovka

According to official Soviet statistics, 1,205.2 million square meters of housing were built in the 1950s and 1960s: during this period, a new territorial and social organism formed in the country. N. Lebina's book is dedicated to the houses built during these years - the famous "khrushchyovkas," which still exist today.

Considering this housing as a special cultural and domestic space of the thaw era, the author studies the external appearance of these buildings, the forms of their internal arrangement, the material saturation of new living spaces, and shows how the life of a Soviet person changed in the context of global modernization trends in everyday life.

In this light, the "khrushchyovka" appears as a unique thaw phenomenon, where the ridiculous mixes with the creative, the funny with the optimistic, and the "Soviet" with the "non-Soviet."

Natalia Lebina is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, a researcher of Soviet everyday life, and the author of books published by "NLO" such as "Passengers of the Sausage Train," "Soviet Everyday Life: Norms and Anomalies," "Man and Woman," and others.