Borders of Socialism

Chapter 1 Introduction: Mapping Private Spheres in the Soviet Context

Chapter 2 Claiming Property: The Soviet-Era Private Plots as “Women’s Turf”

Chapter 3 The Art Market and the Construction of Soviet Russian Culture

Chapter 4 Separate Yet Governed: The Representation of Soviet Property Relations in Civil Law and Public Discourse

Chapter 5 Cars, Cars, and More Cars: The Faustian Bargain of the Brezhnev Era

Chapter 6 Domestic Life and the Activist Wife in the 1930s Soviet Union

Chapter 7 A Hearth for a Dog: The Paradoxes of Soviet Pet Keeping

Chapter 8 The Meaning of Home: “The Only Bit of the World You Can Have to Yourself”

Chapter 9 “I Know all the Secrets of My Neighbors”: The Quest for Privacy in the Era of the Separate Apartment

Chapter 10 Private Matters or Public Crimes: The Emergence of Domestic Hooliganism in the Soviet Union, 1939–1966

Chapter 11 A Symbiosis of Errors: The Personal, Professional, and Political in the Kirov Region, 1931–1941

Chapter 12 Friends in Private, Friends in Public: The Phenomenon of the Kompaniia Among Soviet Youth in the 1950s and 1960s