Leiden University Student Repository

Hofland, Olav S. F. (2016)

Cooking Towards Communism: Domestic Cooking and the Khrushchev Regime's Struggle for the Communist Way of Life

Master thesis | Russian and Eurasian Studies (MA)

This study focusses on the Khrushchev regime's attempt to reform domestic cooking as a part of its struggle for the communist way of life (kommunisticheskii byt) during the Khrushchev era (1956—1964). Official Soviet publications (policy documents, cookbooks and women's magazines) are the primary sources to this study. The Khrushchev regime did indeed attempt to reform domestic cooking in order to fit it with communist ideals, such as the liberation of women and the organization of the Soviet population's nutrition according to scientific principles. It, however, also responded to the realities of Soviet daily life (e.g. the persistent shortages of foodstuffs).

History of Soviet Daily Life

Khrushchev Era

Thaw

Cooking

Rabotnitsa

Kniga o vkusnoi i zdrovoi pishche

Author

Hofland, Olav S. F.

Note

This thesis was made possible by a grant of the Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds.

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Boele, O.F.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en