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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Russian Names -- Introduction: A Painful Question -- Part I: The Development of the Post-Soviet Housing Regime -- 1. The Soviet Promise: A Separate Apartment for Every Family -- 2. Transplant Failure: The American Housing Model in Russia -- 3. Maternity Capitalism: Grafting Pronatalism onto Housing Policy -- 4. Property without Markets: Who Got What as Markets Failed -- Part II: The Meaning of Housing in the New Russia -- 5. Disappointed Dreams: Distributive Injustice in the New Housing Order -- 6. Mobility Strategies: Searching for the Separate Apartment -- 7. Rooms of Their Own: How Housing Affects Family Size -- 8. Children Are Not Capital: Ambivalence about Pronatalist Housing Policies -- 9. To Owe Is Not to Own: Why Russians Reject Mortgages -- Conclusion: A Market That Could Not Emerge -- Appendix: Characteristics of Interviewees Cited in Text -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

The Real Situation in Russia, first published in 1928, contains three of Trotsky's harshest rebuttals of Stalin's takeover of the Russian Revolution following the death of Lenin. The first part contains a defence of the 'Opposition Platform' against the Stalinist denunciation; the second details Trotsky's view of the precise nature of the Stalinist program, as well as its disastrous consequences for Russia; and the third demonstrates the unashamed falsification of the history by Stalin with regard to the beginning of the Revolution. Including a sympathetic, but nonetheless astute, introduction.