Ocherki kommunalʹnogo byta
Serii︠a︡ "Nat︠s︡ii︠a︡ i kulʹtura"
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A close insight into stereotypes of the Soviet and post-Soviet daily life reveals specific features peculiar not only to communal flats dwellers, the so-called distillation of the Soviet lifestyle, but also to unconscious mind of any person associating himself with a present-day Russian culture. Relations between neighbors and specific forms of psychopathology, conceptions about hygiene and fair distribution of things and duties – all this becomes the subject for research which can be determined as an “anthropology of everyday life”.