Khrushchyovka

According to official Soviet statistics, in the 1950s and 1960s, 1,205.2 million square meters of housing were built: during this period, a new territorial and social organism emerged 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 structure, the material saturation of the new living space, and shows how the life of the Soviet person has changed in the context of global modernization trends. In this context, the "khrushchyovka" presents itself as a unique thaw phenomenon, where the absurd 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.