The fate of collective gardening

This anthropology project focuses on the phenomenon of the collective  gardening in the soviet and post-soviet eras. To grasp the essence of  what those gardener communities were like and what they have become  nowadays, authors conducted three in-depth interviews  with owners or ex-owners of the collective gardening allotments,  showing how this phenomenon comes to mean different things for different  people.  The presentation tells a story of the establishment of such  communes, and of their transformation since the early  days. A variety of questions is addressed. Why was the mass collective  gardening promoted by the government? Why were such bizarre regulations  on construction imposed by the authorities? What is the future of the  neighborhoods that once teemed with gardeners  that are no more there? The PowerPoint presentation includes highlights  of the interviews in text an audio formats.

Download the project presentation here