Rebecca Friedman is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 (2006), and editor of Russian Masculinities (2002, co-edited with Barbara Clements and Dan Healey) and European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging (2012, co-edited with Markus Thiel).

• Introduction: Why Time and Home?1. Russian Modernity Through Time and Space2. Present Time, Hygiene and the Urban Apartment3. The Past in the Present: Nostalgic Portraits of the Russian Home4. Early Soviet Visions of Home: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow5. Coda: A Contemporary Snapshot: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?BibliographyIndex

This is a deeply researched and engaging work. ... I would recommend this book to all those interested in urban Russia, Tsarist, and Soviet domesticity, modernity, the history of emotion, and the temporal turn, for it is an excellent and insightful addition to the historiography.

Rebecca Friedman is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 (2006), and editor of Russian Masculinities (2002, co-edited with Barbara Clements and Dan Healey) and European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging (2012, co-edited with Markus Thiel).

• Introduction: Why Time and Home?1. Russian Modernity Through Time and Space2. Present Time, Hygiene and the Urban Apartment3. The Past in the Present: Nostalgic Portraits of the Russian Home4. Early Soviet Visions of Home: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow5. Coda: A Contemporary Snapshot: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?BibliographyIndex

This is a deeply researched and engaging work. ... I would recommend this book to all those interested in urban Russia, Tsarist, and Soviet domesticity, modernity, the history of emotion, and the temporal turn, for it is an excellent and insightful addition to the historiography.

Rebecca Friedman is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Florida International University, USA. She is the author of Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 (2006), and editor of Russian Masculinities (2002, co-edited with Barbara Clements and Dan Healey) and European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging (2012, co-edited with Markus Thiel).

• Introduction: Why Time and Home?1. Russian Modernity Through Time and Space2. Present Time, Hygiene and the Urban Apartment3. The Past in the Present: Nostalgic Portraits of the Russian Home4. Early Soviet Visions of Home: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow5. Coda: A Contemporary Snapshot: Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?BibliographyIndex

This is a deeply researched and engaging work. ... I would recommend this book to all those interested in urban Russia, Tsarist, and Soviet domesticity, modernity, the history of emotion, and the temporal turn, for it is an excellent and insightful addition to the historiography.