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Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure

Author : Arseniy Kotov
Publisher : Fuel
ISBN 13 : 9781916218413
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure written by Arseniy Kotov and published by Fuel. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov intends to document these buildings and their surroundings before they are lost forever. He likes to take pictures in winter, during the "blue hour," which occurs immediately after sunset or just before sunrise. At this time, the warm yellow colors inside apartment-block windows contrast with the twilight gloom outside. To Kotov, this atmosphere reflects the Soviet period of his imagination. His impression of this time is unashamedly idealistic: he envisages a great civilization, built on a fair society, which hopes to explore nature and conquer space. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan to the grim monolithic high-rise dormitory blocks of inner-city Volgograd, Kotov captures the essence of the post-Soviet world. "The USSR no longer exists and in these photographs we can see what remains--the most outstanding buildings and constructions, where Soviet people lived and how Soviet cities once looked: no decoration, no bright colors and no luxury, only bare concrete and powerful forms." This superbly designed volume is the latest in Fuel's revelatory and inspiring series on Soviet-era architecture.

The Soviet City

Author : James H. Bater
Publisher : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet City written by James H. Bater and published by Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tashkent

Author : Paul Stronski
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973898
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Tashkent written by Paul Stronski and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-09-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase. The Soviets planned to transform Tashkent from a “feudal city” of the tsarist era into a “flourishing garden,” replete with fountains, a lakeside resort, modern roadways, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and of course, factories. The city was intended to be a shining example to the world of the successful assimilation of a distinctly non-Russian city and its citizens through the catalyst of socialism. As Stronski reveals, the physical building of this Soviet city was not an end in itself, but rather a means to change the people and their society. Stronski analyzes how the local population of Tashkent reacted to, resisted, and eventually acquiesced to the city’s socialist transformation. He records their experiences of the Great Terror, World War II, Stalin’s death, and the developments of the Krushchev and Brezhnev eras up until the earthquake of 1966, which leveled large parts of the city. Stronski finds that the Soviets established a legitimacy that transformed Tashkent and its people into one of the more stalwart supporters of the regime through years of political and cultural changes and finally during the upheavals of glasnost.

A Soviet City and Its People

Author : Joseph Garelik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Soviet City and Its People written by Joseph Garelik and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Soviet city

Author : James H. Bater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet city written by James H. Bater and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Contemporary Soviet City

Author : Henry W. Morton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315495929
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Soviet City written by Henry W. Morton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.

Planning in the Soviet Union

Author : Judith Pallot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000399532
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Planning in the Soviet Union written by Judith Pallot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981 and based on the authors’ own research, this book provides a comprehensive review of planning in the Soviet Union up until the early 1980s for both geographers and Soviet specialists. Planning was particularly important in the Soviet Union since not only most spatial change, but all economic planning was the product of a systematic socio-political ideology. Planning was therefore the key to understanding the Soviet economy, society and spatial change. When it was first published, this was the first study in which the focus had been directed specifically at spatial planning in the Soviet Union in any systematic way.

Cities of the Soviet Union

Author : Chauncy Dennison Harris
Publisher : Chicago : Published for Association of American Geographers by Rand McNally
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of the Soviet Union written by Chauncy Dennison Harris and published by Chicago : Published for Association of American Geographers by Rand McNally. This book was released on 1970 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City in Russian History

Author : Michael F. Hamm
Publisher : Lexington : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The City in Russian History written by Michael F. Hamm and published by Lexington : University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1976 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soviet Urbanization

Author : Olga Medvedkov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351214004
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Urbanization written by Olga Medvedkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and bringing with her much material otherwise unavailable in the West, the author analyses the structure of the Soviet urban network and its future development under the constraints of central planning. The author concludes that the danger to Soviet urbanization programme lies in the gap between central planning on the one hand and actual spatial change on the other. This book will appeal to students and academics working in the disciplines of geography, urban studies and planning.

Moscow Monumental

Author : Katherine Zubovich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202729
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Moscow Monumental written by Katherine Zubovich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Town and Revolution

Author : Anatole Kopp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Town and Revolution written by Anatole Kopp and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gulag Town, Company Town

Author : Alan Barenberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179448
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Gulag Town, Company Town written by Alan Barenberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The notorious Soviet Gulag gets a radical reinterpretation in this remarkable work of cutting-edge history. By examining the history of Vorkuta, an Arctic coal-mining outpost established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex, Alan Barenberg's insightfulstudy tests the idea that the Gulag was an 'archipelago' separated from Soviet society at large"--Cover.

A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans

Author : Martin Davis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030840174
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans written by Martin Davis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global secret military mapping project and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales. This thesis provides an in-depth examination of the series of over 2,000 large-scale city plans produced in secret by the Military Topographic Directorate (Военное топографическое управление) of the General Staff between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the USSR in 1991. After positioning the series in its historical context, the nature and content of the plans are examined in detail. A poststructuralist perspective introduces possibilities to utilise and apply the maps in new contexts, which this thesis facilitates by providing a systematic, empirical analysis of the Soviet map symbology at 1:10,000 and 1:25,000, using new translations of production manuals and a sample of the city plans. A comparative analysis with the current OpenStreetMap symbology indicates scope for Soviet mapping to be used as a valuable supplementary topographic resource in a variety of existing and future global mapping initiatives, including humanitarian crisis mapping. This leads to a conclusion that the relevance and value of Soviet military maps endure in modern applications, both as a source of data and as a means of overcoming contemporary cartographic challenges relating to symbology, design and the handling of large datasets.

Samarkand

Author : Marco Buttino
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 : 883313914X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Samarkand written by Marco Buttino and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2021-07-21T17:41:00+02:00 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samarkand, located along the Silk Road, has a history that is often confused with a fabled image of the East. This book, however, deals with a real city, narrating the changes that took place while it was part of the USSR and in the period following, all the way up to the present. In Samarkand, the passage between these two eras reflects the broader transformation that affected Uzbekistan and the other Central Asian countries, which were internal colonies, first of Russia and then of the Soviet Union, before becoming independent states. Step by step, the reader enters the city, its various districts, private homes, public places, and hears the stories of diverse individuals and families. Based on archival records, interviews and photographs, the book traces the changes in cultures and ways of life in Samarkand over this period, and investigates the tensions of the post-Soviet years. The Russians vanished from the city they had colonised or guided through the years of Soviet “modernisation”, as did many populations that had been deported there during the Second World War, and various local minorities. The city experienced a period of profound crisis, was transformed in terms of the composition of its population, constructed a new national image, rewrote its history and finally emerged ready to receive tourists with their cameras.

Leningrad

Author : Blair A. Ruble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520065345
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Leningrad written by Blair A. Ruble and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional political, economic, and cultural leaders in Leningrad determine the physical and socioeconomic contours of their city and region within such a centralized economic and political environment. The author examines four major policy initiatives that have emerged in Leningrad since the 1950s--physical planning innovations, integrated scientific-production associations, vocational education reform, and socioeconomic planning--and that have been anchored in attempts to plan and manage metropolitan Leningrad. Each initiative illuminates the bureaucratic and political strategies employed to obtain economic objectives, as well as the bureaucratic patterns which distinguish market and non-market experiences. The boundaries for autonomous action by local Soviet politicians, planners, and managers emerge through this inquiry.

The Contemporary Soviet City

Author : Henry W. Morton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315495910
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Soviet City written by Henry W. Morton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.