Classes in a Classless Society:The Elite Housing Model in the Estonian SSR and Apartment Buildings in Tallinn for the Communist Nomenklatura 1945–1955 Cover Image
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Klassid klassideta ühiskonnas. Elitaarne ruumimudel Eesti NSV-s ja nomenklatuursed korterelamud Tallinnas 1945–1955
Classes in a Classless Society:The Elite Housing Model in the Estonian SSR and Apartment Buildings in Tallinn for the Communist Nomenklatura 1945–1955

Author(s): Epp Lankots
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing
Keywords: Soviet Studies; Soviet architecture; Estonian architecture; Tallinn; Stalinism; Society

Summary/Abstract: A great proportion of the various material in the last decade about society and culture in Soviet Estonia has tended to portray life at that time as being dominated directly or indirectly by an internal resistance to the existing regime. In the same way writings about Soviet Estonian lifestyle and architecture have focused on normative and ideological housing models. Until now, in analysing the component parts of the normative housing model, a known fact has been overlooked that in the Estonian SSR, as in other communist societies, a differentiating housing policy actually existed.

  • Issue Year: 13/2004
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 11-41
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Estonian