Abstract

Just before the end of the Second World War, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union and remained under the Soviet regime for nearly 50 years (19441991) in that time period the country went through a lot of changes from industrial job opportunities in major cities to standardised housing scheme.

Effectively, the significant drawbacks the country was facing were resolved, however, the quality of the resolutions can be argued as not maintaining the initial success.

In this dissertation I will be discussing the attitudes to Soviet housing blocs from their birth (specifically in the late 1950’s to 1960’s period), to the pinnacle of the blocs’ lifespan (1970’s. and 1980’s) to their ‘death’ the present representation of how they stand nearly twenty years past their predicted lifespan of 20 years.

I will be focusing on the Soviet impact in Lithuania primarily, I will also look at the neighbouring countries that were a part of the Soviet Union to unpack how to overcome the arising problems that these housing blocs maintain.