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Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme
FromWitness History
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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
Jul 25, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
In the 1960s, millions of Soviet families were able for the first time to move to a flat of their own. This was due to a mass construction programme of standardized housing. Dina Newman speaks to a resident of one of the first five storey apartment blocks, and to Clem Cecil, a campaigner for preserving architecture. Photo: a five-storey building dating from the 1960s in western Moscow on June 11, 2017. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
Released:
Jul 25, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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