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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Soviet architecture"”.
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Architecture and Counter-revolution: The Ideology of the Historiography of the Soviet "Avant-garde"
… a history of the Western historiography of Soviet architecture, looking at its trends and the evolution of its narratives. It focuses on the development of historiographical categories and their transformations, as an exercise of what Reinhart Koselleck calls conceptual history, framed as a …
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The productive unconscious : architecture, experimental psychology and the techniques of subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935
This dissertation examines how Soviet architecture employed the achievements of experimental psychology in order to transform human subjectivity during the Interwar period, particularly in the years defined by the First Five-Year Plan of Economic Development (1928-1932). In this program of forced …
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… announced the demolition of several thousand Soviet-era, standardised flats (*khrushchevki*). Known as the Renovation, the project promised to replace the *khrushchevki* with new residential districts. The municipality justifies the Renovation by claiming that the *khrushchevki* are decrepit …