ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the construction of domesticity during the last two Soviet decades through analysis of publications designed for public consumption, such as Women's Worker magazine (Rabotnitsa) and home advice manuals, as well as professional publications, such as the journal Decorative Arts of the USSR (Dekorativnoe iskusstvo SSSR, henceforth Dl SSSR). From the outset of the Bolshevik Revolution, domestic space was a central target of ideological intervention and control. The demonization of the everyday was imprinted into the genetic wiring of the Soviet state with the revolutionary avant-garde's association of the everyday with 'counterrevolutionary banality'. The Khrushchev period was marked by intensive state intervention into the domestic space through the propagation of strict aesthetic and social norms.
