Machine generated contents note: 1.Revolutionary Beginnings -- 2.Socialism in One Dormitory: Student Communes -- 3.Socialism in One Apartment: Byt Communes -- 4.Socialism in One Factory: Production Communes -- 5.Early Stalinism and the Urban Communes -- Conclusion: The Commune is Dead, Vive le Communard!.
Summary
This work provides a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist in the wake of the October Revolution, exploring how young radicals banded together in 'urban communes'; at first an experimental lifestyle choice for a handful of young socialists, but growing into a cultural phenomenon espoused by tens of thousands of youths by the end of the 1920s.