Soviet Communal Living: An Oral History of the Kommunalka

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
“Uplotnienie”: Filling Up....Pages 7-10
White Army, Red Army....Pages 11-13
The Visit to Lenin....Pages 15-17
Like Life in Naples....Pages 19-21
I, Princess Golitsyn....Pages 23-24
Spy Stories....Pages 25-29
The Black Crow....Pages 31-32
Even the Baltics....Pages 33-37
The Siege of Leningrad....Pages 39-42
The Denunciation....Pages 43-47
Summer 1948....Pages 49-52
The Ambulance, the Dead, and the Others....Pages 53-56
The American Legacy....Pages 57-59
Jewish Poison in the Pots....Pages 61-65
The Letter....Pages 67-70
New Year’s Eve Celebration....Pages 71-74
How Thirty People Can Share an Apartment....Pages 75-78
The Gulag and the Roslovian Smell....Pages 79-85
Ballad of a Soldier....Pages 87-92
Lenins, Nothing But Lenins....Pages 93-95
Dissidence....Pages 97-102
The Passageway Room....Pages 103-105
The Prostitute....Pages 107-110
The French Lover....Pages 111-114
Masha L. and the Spirit of the Kommunalka....Pages 115-122
The English Girl and the Blackmarketeer....Pages 123-127
An Officer in the Strategic Nuclear Forces....Pages 129-134
From Putsch to Putsch....Pages 135-138
Seventeen Years after the Fall of the USSR....Pages 139-141
Two Sisters through History....Pages 143-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-168