ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to conceptualise the public sphere of lateSoviet society of the 1970s and 1980s, and to consider its spatial arrangement and the communication patterns that characterised it. It arises out of the fact that certain arrangements and practices of everyday life in the Soviet Union are quickly vanishing from the collective memory. Biographical research, however, is able to stimulate people to offer narratives relating to these things before they disappear completely.
