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Between a dacha and a fashionable residence. The Western idea

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This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the Russian “dacha” through the lens of Western European research. This phenomenon is studied in the context of finding the strategies of dacha residents with historical hindsight and the value of dachas in the Soviet and post-Soviet societies. Special attention is paid to social aspects of the lives of dacha residents in the suburbs in post-Soviet Russia.

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Original Russian Text © I. Brade, 2014, published in Izvestiya RAN. Seriya Geograficheskaya, 2014, No. 4, pp. 43–48.

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Brade, I. Between a dacha and a fashionable residence. The Western idea. Reg. Res. Russ. 4, 174–178 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970514030034

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