Gagare 4th International Conference: a Long, Happy Life. Building and Thinking the Soviet City: 1956 to Now October 31, 2015 Session 3: Planned and Lived Reality. Appropriation and Conversion of Public and Private Space Steven Harris. Soviet Airports: Futuristic Gateways to the Socialist City Steven Harris is a historian of modern Russia. He is presently conducting research on a new book about the Soviet culture of aviation in the jet age. Author of the book Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin (2013), his research interests include mass housing, architecture, and urbanization in Soviet history.

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