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Evening Class of the Eastern Bloc: Byt'

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT)

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Evening Class of the Eastern Bloc: Byt'

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Evening Class of the Eastern Bloc

Byt', Dr. Susan E. Reid

Wednesday 10 March, 7pm – 8.30pm, FREE

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary.

Wednesday 10 March: Byt'.

“Byt’” is Russian for everyday life. Dr Susan E. Reid of the Russian and Slavonic Studies Department, the University of Sheffield, will talk about Russian domestic life during the 1950s and 60s. 

The Khrushchev era in the Soviet Union (mid-1950s - mid-1960s) was a time of rapid modernization and intensive industrialized construction of standard mass housing for the Soviet people. The provision of new flats was accompanied by large quantities of advice about how to furnish, decorate and dwell in them in ways that were deemed modern, tasteful and socialist, such that the new apartments would not become nests of ‘petit-bourgeois’ private values but, rather, become the springboard for the final transition to full Communism. This illustrated talk will look at the way in which Soviet citizens who moved into new flats in the early 1960s negotiated standardization, shortages, and modernist taste prescriptions to make these standard spaces into home.

 

Wednesdays 3, 10, 17 and 24 March

Four weeks of free educational classes on the history, art, culture and economy of the former Soviet sphere of influence

Nottingham Contemporary's programme of talks and discussions is jointly supported by The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.

 

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