Russian Collective Gardens: A Story of Institution and Remembrance

Frédérick Lemarchand (1)

1 CERREV - Centre d'étude et de recherche sur les risques et les vulnérabilités

Starting from a fieldwork carried out in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) on industrial pollution and the necessity to support gardeners in changing their practices, the present research opens a socio-anthropological perspective on the (sub)urban garden. The datcha is first and foremost a Soviet institution that has now spread to all Russian cities to become a social, cultural, and intergenerational phenomenon.

Mots clés: Russia; Collective gardens; Datcha; History; Institution

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Environnement et Société

Frédérick Lemarchand. Russian Collective Gardens: A Story of Institution and Remembrance. The urban garden city : shaping the city with gardens through history, pp.79-97, 2018, Cities and nature, 978-3-319-72732-5. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-72733-2_5⟩. ⟨hal-01928677⟩