house-commune

English

Etymology

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

Noun

house-commune (plural house-communes)

  1. A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
    • 1979, Alena Heitlinger, Women and State Socialism, →ISBN, page 82:
      The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.
    • 1993, Public Culture, page 276:
      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.
    • 2013, Jacqueline Low, Gary Bowden, The Chicago School Diaspora: Epistemology and Substance, →ISBN:
      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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