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Summerfolk : a history of the Dacha, 1710-2000 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovell, Stephen, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Country homes > Russia.
Country homes > Soviet Union.
Country homes > Russia (Federation)
Russia > Social life and customs > 1533-1917.
Soviet Union > Social life and customs.
Russia (Federation) > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Prehistory
  • Between city and court : the middle third of the nineteenth century
  • The late imperial dacha boom
  • Between arcadia and suburbia : the dacha as a cultural space, 1860-1917
  • The making of the Soviet dacha, 1917-1941
  • Between consumption and ownership : exurban life, 1941-1986
  • Post-Soviet suburbanization? : dacha settlements in contemporary Russia.