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This sixth episode discusses the implementation of Socialist Realism in the USSR, the Palace of Soviets, the Moscow Metro and the city planning principles of the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-6-new-moscow-1931-35
SOURCES*
Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
Danilo Udovicki-Selb, Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938
L. Perchik, The Reconstruction Of Moscow
archive.org/details/PerchikL.TheReconstructionOfMoscow.--Moscow1936
The Moscow Subway, Foreign languages publishing house, Moscow, 1939
ciml.250x.com/archive/ussr/english/1939_the_moscow_subway.pdf
Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed33bcd368e221ec227cacd/t/5ee39a1731781f54f197c5f7/1591974443348/Domenico+Losurdo+-+Stalin.pdf
Kaganovich, The construction of the subway and the plan for the city of Moscow
archive.org/details/kaganovich-lazar.-construction-of-the-subway-and-the-plan-of-the-city-of-moscow
Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia
Hans Blumenfeld, “Planning in the Soviet Union”, in TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 3.
archive.org/details/1942-blumenfeld-regional-and-city-planning-soviet-union-task
Bater, The Soviet city : ideal and reality
Crawford, Spatial Revolution
Stalin, Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/01/26.htm
Sotsgorod (a video by Eco Gecko)
youtube.com/watch?v=CWKuCoSg85w
*Hudson, Tarkhanov & Udovicki-Selb are anti-communists. I generally wouldn't recommend their work. Bater, Crawford & Parkins are also anti-communists, though their books are somewhat better, especially Crawford. Perchik & Losurdo are good communist authors and naturally Stalin & Kaganovich are good sources too. Blumenfeld is a liberal, but I recommend his work. Ikonnikov is a brezhnevite revisionist and the quality of his work varies.
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This sixth episode discusses the implementation of Socialist Realism in the USSR, the Palace of Soviets, the Moscow Metro and the city planning principles of the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-6-new-moscow-1931-35
SOURCES*
Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
Danilo Udovicki-Selb, Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938
L. Perchik, The Reconstruction Of Moscow
archive.org/details/PerchikL.TheReconstructionOfMoscow.--Moscow1936
The Moscow Subway, Foreign languages publishing house, Moscow, 1939
ciml.250x.com/archive/ussr/english/1939_the_moscow_subway.pdf
Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed33bcd368e221ec227cacd/t/5ee39a1731781f54f197c5f7/1591974443348/Domenico+Losurdo+-+Stalin.pdf
Kaganovich, The construction of the subway and the plan for the city of Moscow
archive.org/details/kaganovich-lazar.-construction-of-the-subway-and-the-plan-of-the-city-of-moscow
Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia
Hans Blumenfeld, “Planning in the Soviet Union”, in TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 3.
archive.org/details/1942-blumenfeld-regional-and-city-planning-soviet-union-task
Bater, The Soviet city : ideal and reality
Crawford, Spatial Revolution
Stalin, Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.)
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/01/26.htm
Sotsgorod (a video by Eco Gecko)
youtube.com/watch?v=CWKuCoSg85w
*Hudson, Tarkhanov & Udovicki-Selb are anti-communists. I generally wouldn't recommend their work. Bater, Crawford & Parkins are also anti-communists, though their books are somewhat better, especially Crawford. Perchik & Losurdo are good communist authors and naturally Stalin & Kaganovich are good sources too. Blumenfeld is a liberal, but I recommend his work. Ikonnikov is a brezhnevite revisionist and the quality of his work varies.
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My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik
My discord
discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK
My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com
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