54. The crucial Central Committee resolution was “O razvitii zhilishchnogo stroitel’stva v SSSR” (31 July 1957).
55. See, e.g., N. Gamov and M.I. Popov, Sovety individual’nomu zastroishchiku (Leningrad, 1959), and V.M. Ancheev, S.S. Kozhurin, and A.N. Korchuganov, Spravochnik individual’nogo zastroishchika na severe (Petrozavodsk, 1960).
56. For more details on regulations pertaining to land use, see Sbornik zakonodatel’nykh aktov o zemle (Moscow, 1962).
57. Designs for simple dachas of this kind are presented in L. N. Kreindlin, Letnie sadovye domiki (Moscow, 1967).
58. See, e.g., L. Karlik, “Na beregakh kliaz’minskogo vodokhranilishcha,” Stroitel’stvo i arkhitektura Moskvy, no. 3 (1964), 30.
59. V. A. Kherkel’, Vasha dacha (Moscow, 1972), 9.
60. See the following resolutions of the Council of Ministers: “Ob individual’nom stroitel’stve dach” (30 Dec. 1960) and (for garden plots) “Ob otmene zakrepleniia za rabochimi i sluzhashchimi v individual’noe роl’zovanie zemel’nykh uchastkov, otvedennykh pod kollektivnye sady” (18 Sept. 1961).
61. See the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers “O zhilishchno-stroitel’noi i dachno-stroitel’noi kooperatsii” (20 Mar. 1958).
62. Primernyi ustav dachno-stroitel’nogo kooperativa (Moscow, 1959). Further explanation is provided in Instruktsiia po bukhgalterskomu uchetu v zhilishchno-stroitel’nykh i dachno-stroitel’nykh kooperativakh (Moscow, 1960).
63. SPP RSFSR, no. 15 (1958), art. 160.
64. SPP SSSR, no. 4 (1961), art. 23.
65. P. Vorob’ev and V. Temin, “Neuzhto sad?” Kr, no. 28 (1959), 10.
66. V. Kozlov and V. Titov, “O golubykh osobniakakh i khoroshem tone,” Kr, no. 9 (1959), 8–9; L. Eliseev and V. Temin, “Il’ia Kandinov i drugie,” Kr, no. 3 (i960), 11; D. Ivanov and V. Trifonov, “Grimasy kamennogo veka,” Kr, no. 1 (1961), 4–5; cartoons in Kr, no. 25 (1961), 3, and “Как mne obmanut’ obshchestvennost’?” Kr, no. 5 (1963), 7 (woman boards up her villa to make it seem less luxurious).
67. See cartoons “Otgorodilis,” Kr, no. 12 (1962), 13; the untitled sketch in Kr, no. 18 (1962), 13 (owner of large house and garage claims he has won all this in a lottery); “Byl chelovek. . . i net cheloveka,” Kr, no. 26 (1962), 5 (man blotted out by the fence he has put up around his property); and front cover of Kr, no. 13 (1962).
68. For one such episode, see N. Anisimova, “Avtonomnoe khoziaistvo na shesti sotkakh,” SPb ved, 26 May 1999.
69. See cartoon “Pered dachnym sezonom,” Kr, no. 11 (1961), 14; and “K okonchaniiu dachnogo sezona,” Kr, no. 25 (1965), 12; and front cover of Kr, no. 15 (1967).
70. See cartoons “Как grazhdanin Chastnikov sadovyi uchastok osvaival,” Kr, no. 5 (1962), 8–9; the untitled sketch in Kr, no. 9 (1965), 13 (man nailing “Dacha for rent” to a post; the dacha itself in the shape of a giant purse); “Sdal dachu,” Kr, no. 16 (1965), 10; “Vesennii otlov,” Kr, no. 17 (1965), 13; and in Kr, no. 19 (1970), 13.
71. See L. Lench, “Diadia Fedia,” in his Izbrarttioe (Moscow, 1975).
72. See A. Arbuzov, Dvenadtsatyi chas, in his Dramy (Moscow, 1969).
73. “Predel’nye stavki platy za sdavaemye v naem zhilye i dachnye pomeshcheniia v domakh i dachakh, prinadlezhashchikh grazhdanam na prave lichnoi sobstvennosti,” SZ, no. 11 (1963), 89.
74. See cartoon “Levyi povorot,” Kr, no. 29 (1962), 12; and Kr, no. 10 (1966), 11.
75. See Z. A. Fedotovskaia, “Sudebnaia praktika po delam ob iz"iatii u grazhdan stroenii, vozvedennykh imi na netrudovye dokhody libo ispol’zuemykh dlia izvlecheniia netrudovykh dokhodov,” in Nauchnyi kommentarn sudebttoipraktiki za 1963 god, ed. I. Sediugin (Moscow, 1965).
76. Of course, one needs to distinguish between the forms and the consequences of public discourse. By Khrushchev’s time, the threat of physical violence that lay (not very far) behind the discourse of the 1930s had substantially been removed.
77. See К. B. Iaroshenko, “Spory о prave na chlenstvo v zhilishchno-stroitel’nykh i dachno-stroitel’nykh kooperativakh,” in Kommentarii sudebnoi praktiki za 1975 god, ed. E.V. Boldyreva and A. I. Pergament (Moscow, 1976).
78. This apt oxymoron is borrowed from D. Crowley and S. Reid, “Style and Socialism: Modernity and Material Culture in Post-War Eastern Europe,” in these authors’ edited volume of the same title (Oxford, 2000), 12.
79. N. Mar, “Dlia sebia, detei i vnukov,” and A. Spektorov and E. Veltistov, “Pauki,” Ogonek, no. 32 (1959), 27, 30–31
80. L. Libedinskaia, Zelenaia lampa: Vospominaniia (Moscow, 1966), 360. For a fictional work in which the dacha of a Soviet artist becomes a symbol of its owner’s moral cowardice, see G. Shergova, “Zakolochennye dachi,” Novyi mir, no. 3 (1978), 68–96.
81. In the standard Soviet account of the dacha (located in Tver’ oblast), the prerevolutionary tradition was held to have inspired Soviet artists in their “realistic” evocations of the popular spirit (narodnost’): see I. Romanycheva, Akademicheskaia dacha (Leningrad, 1975).
82. Libedinskaia, Zelenaia lampa, 355.
83. V. Kaverin, Epilog: Memuary (Moscow, 1989), 256 and 358, respectively.
84. V. Kataev, “Peredelkino” (1984), in his Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow, 1983–86), 10:458.
85. A brief account on the condition of Peredelkino in August 1942 was given by L.N. Seifullina (her letter is reproduced in Ivanova, Моi sovremenniki, 131–32). The Ivanovs’ dacha had burned to the ground in the same year, apparently because an iron had been left on by one of the temporary occupants.
86. One must assume that informal sociability of this kind played an important role in dacha communities other than Peredelkino—in settlements for the government and Party elite, for example. The advantage of Peredelkino for the historian is that its inhabitants left a plentiful supply of memoirs.
87. Fadeev dropped in unexpectedly on Zabolotskii in 1946 and initiated a serious literary discussion (Life of Zabolotsky, 245). Tamara Ivanova’s memoirs emphasize his neighborliness (Moi sovremenniki, 376–89). Kaverin describes Fadeev suddenly summoning him for a walk around Peredelkino in 1955 and hinting at some of his worries (Epilog, 308–11). Vsevolod Ivanov’s son, Viacheslav, recalled hearing the pistol shot of Fadeev’s suicide a year later as he sat working in his family’s dacha: see his memoir “Goluboi zver’,” Zvezda, no. 1 (1995), 191.
88. See K. Paustovskii, “Pustaia dacha,” in his Sobranie sochinenii v deviati tomakh (Moscow, 1981–86), 6:372–77, and A. Bitov, “Zhizn’ v vetrenuiu pogodu,” in his Imperiia v chetyrekh izmereniiakh (Moscow, 1996), 1:99–128.