The 'Soviet Man': evidence that the creation of a new 'Soviet man' still had some way to go

Housing

• Private housing was never entirely eliminated, even in 1938
• Privately owned mud huts, which had no 'Red corners' made up 17.5% of the living space in Magnitogorsk
• In the late 1930s, there was a shift away from barracks to providing apartments for families, as part of the pro-family policies then being adopted

Preferences in entertainment

• After the cinema, the most popular entertainment was performances of French wresting
• Attempts to use the circus at Magnitogorsk as…