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house-commune

noun

Etymology

Calque of Russian дом-коммуна (dom-kommuna, “house-commune”)

  1. derived from дом-коммуна — “house-commune”

Definitions

  1. A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the…

    A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.

    • The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.
    • Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.
    • Communal apartments shared the utopian constructivist ideas with the house-commune in that they also had common areas of use such as the communal kitchens and bathrooms (Utekhin 2003).

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