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This 9th episode discusses the Post-WWII reconstruction in the USSR.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-9-post-ww2-reconstruction
SOURCES*
Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism
A. Palladin, "The Ruined Cities Are Reborn", USSR information bulletin, Volume VIII, no. 14, July 28, 1948
Robert Dale, “Divided we Stand: Cities, Social Unity and Post–War Reconstruction in Soviet Russia, 1945–1953”, Contemporary European History, Vol. 24, No. 4, Special Issue: Urban Societies in Europe (November 2015)
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia
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/33/mode/1up
I. Vizen, "Prefabricated Housing Booms in USSR As New Buildings Rise", USSR information bulletin, Volume VIII, no. 23, December 8, 1948
A. Bazdyrev, “History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes”
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
*Tarkhanov, Parkins and Dale are capitalist authors whose work I don’t recommend. Ikonnikov is a revisionist whose work is of varying quality. Fundamentals of ML is a revisionist textbook, which should be read only very critically. Blumenfeld is a liberal but his writings are good. Bazdyrev is also a good author. I also recommend the USSR information bulletin.
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This 9th episode discusses the Post-WWII reconstruction in the USSR.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-9-post-ww2-reconstruction
SOURCES*
Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism
A. Palladin, "The Ruined Cities Are Reborn", USSR information bulletin, Volume VIII, no. 14, July 28, 1948
Robert Dale, “Divided we Stand: Cities, Social Unity and Post–War Reconstruction in Soviet Russia, 1945–1953”, Contemporary European History, Vol. 24, No. 4, Special Issue: Urban Societies in Europe (November 2015)
Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture
Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia
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/33/mode/1up
I. Vizen, "Prefabricated Housing Booms in USSR As New Buildings Rise", USSR information bulletin, Volume VIII, no. 23, December 8, 1948
A. Bazdyrev, “History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes”
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm
*Tarkhanov, Parkins and Dale are capitalist authors whose work I don’t recommend. Ikonnikov is a revisionist whose work is of varying quality. Fundamentals of ML is a revisionist textbook, which should be read only very critically. Blumenfeld is a liberal but his writings are good. Bazdyrev is also a good author. I also recommend the USSR information bulletin.
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