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Yurii Pimenov , “ Wedding on Tomorrow Street ” (1962 )

Communism on Tomorrow Street: The Soviet Union’s Revolution in Mass Housing after Stalin Steven E. Harris George Mason University February 19, 2014. Yurii Pimenov , “ Wedding on Tomorrow Street ” (1962 ).

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Yurii Pimenov , “ Wedding on Tomorrow Street ” (1962 )

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  1. Communism on Tomorrow Street: The Soviet Union’s Revolution in Mass Housing after StalinSteven E. HarrisGeorge Mason UniversityFebruary 19, 2014 YuriiPimenov, “Wedding on Tomorrow Street” (1962)

  2. Example of elite, pre-revolutionary housing in St. Petersburg: the Moruzi House, 24/27 Liteinyiprospekt. Source: http://www.sntpeters.com

  3. THE “KOMMUNALKA” – THE COMMUNAL APARTMENT Floor plan of a contemporary St. Petersburg kommunalka. Each room is accessible off the common central hallway; measurements in feet. Source: http://kommunalka.colgate.edu/cfm/site_map.cfm

  4. THE “KOMMUNALKA” – THE COMMUNAL APARTMENT The kitchen of a kommunalka. The long corridorof a kommunalka. A family drinking tea at the dining room table in their own room. A family’s room served several functions. Source: http://kommunalka.colgate.edu

  5. “A SEPARATE APARTMENT FOR EVERY FAMILY” Nikita S. Khrushchev * Leader of the Soviet Union, 1953-1964 A Khrushchev-era apartment building in St.Petersburg, October 2010. Photographed by the author.

  6. Leningrad Paris Source: DmitriiGubin et al., Real’nyiPeterburg(St. Petersburg, 1999), 190-91. Source: Norma Evenson, Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 (New Haven, 1979), 262. Brasilía Chicago Source: James Holston, The Modernist City (Chicago, 1989), 176 Source: Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto (Chicago, 1998), 244.

  7. Floor plans for a four-apartment section in mass housing built under Khrushchev. K. Metel’skii, “PredlozheniiaproektirovshchikovMITEPa,” Arkhitektura SSSR, no. 6 (1962); 13.

  8. Ilya Ehrenberg (1891-1967) author of The Thaw (1954) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) * author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich(1962)

  9. Sectional furniture in a living/dining room. This room was part of a 1959 furniture exhibition in Moscow. Source: N. Luppov, “O vsesoiuznomkonkursenaluchshuiumebel’,” Dekorativnoeiskusstvo SSSR, no. 5 (1959): 9.

  10. MOVING TO THE SEPARATE APARTMENT Yuri Pimenov, “Wedding on Tomorrow Street” (1962) The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Yuri Pimenov, “A Lyrical House-Warming” Source: Rabotnitsa, no. 5 (1967), 10.

  11. MASS HOUSING AND THE COLD WAR:THE “KITCHEN DEBATE” Khrushchev and Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow, 1959

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