Meaning of house-commune | Babel Free

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A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.

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“The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.”

“Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.”

“Communal apartments shared the utopian constructivist ideas with the house-commune in that they also had common areas of use such as the communal kitchens and bathrooms (Utekhin 2003).”

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