- novosel’e The process of moving into a new apartment, the novosel’e, exists as a distinct genre of Stalinist Socialist realist Mythology. It is endlessy retold in magazines, newspapers and movie clips. A typical move plot consists of the family of a deserving worker, usually a Stakhanovite, moving with its belongings old and new into a gleaning […]
- Ugolok Diadi Lenina In the same room of the dining table should be a corner set aside for the children: an Ugolok Diadi Lenina (Uncle’s Lenin Little Corner) where children can be instilled with love and respect for lenin. Here also should hang a picture of Lenin, and images of the old pre-Revolutionary byt of children suffering under […]
- BYT Byt encompasses all the following English terms “daily life”, “domesticity”, “lifestyle”, “style of life”. With the revolution and the problem of constructing a new socialist society, the word byt assumed an increasingly political significance. (…) With the end of the civil war, the following period of capitalist economic recovery known as New Economic Policy (NEP), and […]