TY - BOOK ID - 134641343 TI - Dacha idylls PY - 2011 SN - 0520947878 1282764071 9786612764073 9780520947870 0520262840 9780520262843 0520262859 9780520262850 9781282764071 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Gardening KW - Organic living KW - Vacation homes KW - Country homes KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Social life and customs. KW - anthropology. KW - changing landscape. KW - cultural anthropology. KW - dacha dwellers. KW - dacha life. KW - dachas. KW - economic landscape. KW - ethnography. KW - gardening. KW - good life. KW - literary influence. KW - modern history. KW - modern russia. KW - natural environment. KW - nonfiction. KW - postsocialist russia. KW - rural settings. KW - russia. KW - russian culture. KW - russian history. KW - russian life. KW - russian politics. KW - russian traditions. KW - simple life. KW - social cultural. KW - summer cottage. KW - traditional cottages. KW - traditional dwellings. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134641343 AB - Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, Melissa L. Caldwell captures the dacha's abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that these dwellings are key to understanding Russian life. She draws on literary texts as well as observations from dacha dwellers to highlight this enduring fact of Russian culture at a time when so much has changed. Caldwell presents the dacha world in all its richness and complexity-a "good life" that draws inspiration from the natural environment in which it is situated. ER -