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The Soviet Banya and the Mass Production of Hygiene

Author(s) -

Tijana Vujošević

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

architectural histories

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 2050-5833

DOI - 10.5334/ah.az

Subject(s) - proletariat , communism , state (computer science) , socialization , pleasure , political science , sociology , social science , law , psychology , algorithm , neuroscience , politics , computer science

Around 1930, during the era of the First Five-Year Plan, the Russian urban bathhouse, or 'banya', was collectivized and placed under state care. How did changes in the architecture of the model 'banyas' of Moscow and Leningrad articulate the changing role of the 'banya' as a site of pleasure, cure, and socialization? How do the aesthetics, ethics, and choreography of bathing in this period illustrate the relationship between the state and the urban proletariat as mediated by modern technology? How did they reflect the vision of the Communist society as a mechanized universe

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