House-commune

A house-commune in Smolensk, Russia

A house-commune (дом-коммуна) was an architectural and social movement in early Soviet Union of 1920-1930s.

The purpose of the house-communes was to get rid of "the yoke of the household economy". [1]

The idea of a house-commune is borrowed from phalanstères of utopian socialists. In 1928 Tsentrozhilsoyuz (Общесоюзный центр жилищно-строительной и жилищно-арендной кооперации) issued the "Typical Statute of the House-Commune" (Типовое положение о доме-коммуне), which called for communal education of children, food preparation, household chores and recreation. [2]

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  1. ↑ Richard Stites, The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930, 1978, ISBN 0691100586, p. 409
  2. ↑ Измозик В. С., Лебина Н. Б. Петербург советский: «новый человек» в старом пространстве. 1920–1930-е годы. (Социально-архитектурное микроисторическое исследование). — СПб.: Крига, 2010. — С. 145. — 248 с. — ISBN 978-5-901805-46-6.
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