Housing the new Russia

Introduction : a painful question

The Soviet promise : a separate apartment for every family

Transplant failure : the American housing model in Russia

Maternity capitalism : grafting pronatalism onto housing policy

Property without markets : who got what as markets failed

Disappointed dreams : distributive injustice in the new housing order

Mobility strategies : searching for the separate apartment

Rooms of their own : how housing affects family size

Children are not capital : ambivalence about pronatalist housing policies

To owe is not to own : why Russians reject mortgages

Conclusion : a market that could not emerge.