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- catalog abstract ""A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it. The book also demonstrates the crucial role that the dacha has played in the development of Russia's two most important cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, by providing residents with a refuge from the squalid and crowded metropolis. Like the suburbs in other nations, the dacha form of settlement served to alleviate social anxieties about urban growth." "Lovell shows that the dacha is defined less by its physical location - usually one or two hours' distance from a large city yet apart from the rural hinterland - than by the routines, values, and ideologies of its inhabitants. Drawing on sources as diverse as architectural pattern books, memoirs, paintings, fiction, and newspapers, he examines how dachniki ("summerfolk") have freed themselves from the workplace, cultivated domestic space, and created informal yet intense intellectual communities. He also reflects on the disdain that many Russians have felt toward the dacha, and their association of its lifestyle with physical idleness, private property, and unproductive use of the land." "Russian attitudes toward the dacha are, Lowell asserts, constantly evolving. The word "dacha" has evoked both delight in and hostility to leisure. It has implied both the rejection of agricultural labor and, more recently, a return to the soil. In Summerfolk, the dacha is a unique vantage point from which to observe the Russian social landscape and Russian life in the private sphere."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12767911.
- catalog coverage "Russia (Federation) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Russia Social life and customs 1533-1917.".
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the function of the dacha and attitudes toward it. The book also demonstrates the crucial role that the dacha has played in the development of Russia's two most important cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, by providing residents with a refuge from the squalid and crowded metropolis. Like the suburbs in other nations, the dacha form of settlement served to alleviate social anxieties about urban growth."".
- catalog description ""Lovell shows that the dacha is defined less by its physical location - usually one or two hours' distance from a large city yet apart from the rural hinterland - than by the routines, values, and ideologies of its inhabitants. Drawing on sources as diverse as architectural pattern books, memoirs, paintings, fiction, and newspapers, he examines how dachniki ("summerfolk") have freed themselves from the workplace, cultivated domestic space, and created informal yet intense intellectual communities. He also reflects on the disdain that many Russians have felt toward the dacha, and their association of its lifestyle with physical idleness, private property, and unproductive use of the land."".
- catalog description ""Russian attitudes toward the dacha are, Lowell asserts, constantly evolving. The word "dacha" has evoked both delight in and hostility to leisure. It has implied both the rejection of agricultural labor and, more recently, a return to the soil. In Summerfolk, the dacha is a unique vantage point from which to observe the Russian social landscape and Russian life in the private sphere."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.".
- catalog description "Prehistory -- Between city and court : the middle third of the nineteenth century -- The late imperial dacha boom -- Between arcadia and suburbia : the dacha as a cultural space, 1860-1917 -- The making of the Soviet dacha, 1917-1941 -- Between consumption and ownership : exurban life, 1941-1986 -- Post-Soviet suburbanization? : dacha settlements in contemporary Russia.".
- catalog extent "xv, 260 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801440718".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
- catalog spatial "Russia Social life and customs 1533-1917.".
- catalog spatial "Russia.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "643.2 21".
- catalog subject "Country homes Russia (Federation)".
- catalog subject "Country homes Russia.".
- catalog subject "Country homes Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "DK32 .L79 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prehistory -- Between city and court : the middle third of the nineteenth century -- The late imperial dacha boom -- Between arcadia and suburbia : the dacha as a cultural space, 1860-1917 -- The making of the Soviet dacha, 1917-1941 -- Between consumption and ownership : exurban life, 1941-1986 -- Post-Soviet suburbanization? : dacha settlements in contemporary Russia.".
- catalog title "Summerfolk : a history of the Dacha, 1710-2000 / Stephen Lovell.".
- catalog type "text".