How Long to Read Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room

How Long Does it Take to Read Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 17 minutes to read Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room by Kateryna Malaia

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in their domestic spaces, urbanites transitioned to post-Soviet citizens. The two decades after the collapse of the USSR witnessed a major urban apartment remodeling boom. Malaia shows how, in the context of limited residential mobility, those remodeling and modifying their homes formed new lifestyles defined by increased spatial privacy. Remodeled interiors served as a material expression of a social identity above the poverty line, in place of the outdated Soviet signifiers of well-being. Connecting home improvement, self-reinvention, the end of state socialism, and the lived experience of change, Malaia puts together a comprehensive portrait of the era. Malaia shows both the stubborn continuities and the dramatic changes that accompanied the collapse of the USSR. Making the case for similarities throughout the former Soviet empire, this study is based on interviews and fieldwork done primarily in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine. Many of the buildings described are similar to those damaged or destroyed by Russian bombings or artillery fire following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. A book about major historic events written through the lens of everyday life, Taking Soviet Union Apart is also about the meaning of home in a dramatically changing world.

How long is Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room?

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room by Kateryna Malaia is 135 pages long, and a total of 34,425 words.

This makes it 46% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 8 minutes to read Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room aloud.

What Reading Level is Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room?

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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