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This 10th episode discusses the architecture of the khrushchevite-brezhnevite revisionist era in the USSR.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-10-revisionist-era
SOURCES*
“Style and Achievement In Soviet Architecture”, New World Review, 1956-03: Vol 24 Issue 3
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
A. Bazdyrev, “History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes”
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
Masha Panteleyeva, Transfers of Modernism: Constructing Soviet Postwar Urbanity
Hans Blumenfeld, “USSR Postwar Reconstruction”, TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 7-8, special issue on Reconstruction (published by Harvard University), 1948
archive.org/details/1948-blumenfeld-ussr-postwar-reconstruction-task/page/n1/mode/2up
James H. Bater, The Soviet city: ideal and reality
Ksenia Choate, From "Stalinkas" to "Khrushchevkas": The Transition to Minimalism in Urban Residential Interiors in the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Jane R. Zavisca, Housing the new Russia
https://kommunalka.colgate.edu/cfm/essays.cfm?ClipID=376
Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory; Architecture At war
Greg Castillo, Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and Built Tradition, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (SPRING 1997)
K. S. Alabyan, “Tasks of Soviet Architecture”
tehne.com/library/alabyan-k-s-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937
Catherine Cooke, “Beauty as a Route to 'the Radiant Future': Responses of Soviet Architecture”, Journal of Design History Vol. 10, No. 2, Design, Stalin and the Thaw (1997)
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This 10th episode discusses the architecture of the khrushchevite-brezhnevite revisionist era in the USSR.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-10-revisionist-era
SOURCES*
“Style and Achievement In Soviet Architecture”, New World Review, 1956-03: Vol 24 Issue 3
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
A. Bazdyrev, “History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes”
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
Masha Panteleyeva, Transfers of Modernism: Constructing Soviet Postwar Urbanity
Hans Blumenfeld, “USSR Postwar Reconstruction”, TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 7-8, special issue on Reconstruction (published by Harvard University), 1948
archive.org/details/1948-blumenfeld-ussr-postwar-reconstruction-task/page/n1/mode/2up
James H. Bater, The Soviet city: ideal and reality
Ksenia Choate, From "Stalinkas" to "Khrushchevkas": The Transition to Minimalism in Urban Residential Interiors in the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Jane R. Zavisca, Housing the new Russia
https://kommunalka.colgate.edu/cfm/essays.cfm?ClipID=376
Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory; Architecture At war
Greg Castillo, Soviet Orientalism: Socialist Realism and Built Tradition, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (SPRING 1997)
K. S. Alabyan, “Tasks of Soviet Architecture”
tehne.com/library/alabyan-k-s-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937
Catherine Cooke, “Beauty as a Route to 'the Radiant Future': Responses of Soviet Architecture”, Journal of Design History Vol. 10, No. 2, Design, Stalin and the Thaw (1997)
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My patreon
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My discord
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My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com
My Email
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