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Most valuable is...the detailed description of the structures, uses, and problems with late-Soviet apartments, and the attendant social adaptations and cooperation required to live in such limited space where one's 'bedroom' was simultaneously the family living room, entertainment center, and dining room, and one's kitchen was often but a galley. Malaia adds significantly to the depiction of everyday life...for this transitional period * Russian Review *

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Kateryna Malaia is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, University of Utah. She studies the evolution of architecture in times of sociopolitical change through the lenses of cultural practices and material culture, particularly in relation to the collapse of the USSR and rising housing insecurity in the United States.

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