Blueprints and Blood

The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937

Jr. Hudson Hugh D. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-63506-4 (ISBN)

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Analyzing "totalitarianism from below" in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people. Through a study of the ideas and constructions of these visionary reformers, Hudson explores their efforts to build new forms of housing and "settlements" designed to free the residents, especially women, from drudgery, allowing them to participate in creative work and to enjoy the "songs of larks." Resolving to obliterate this movement of human liberation, Stalinists in the field of architecture unleashed a "little" terror from below, prior to Stalin's Great Terror. Using formerly secret Party archives made available by perestroika, Hudson finds in the rediscovered theoretical work of the avant-garde architects a new understanding of their aims. He shows, for instance, how they saw the necessity of bringing elite desires for a transformed world into harmony with the people's wish to preserve national culture.
Such goals brought their often divided movement into conflict with the Stalinists, especially on the subject of collectivization. Hudson's provocative work offers evidence that in spite of the ultimate success of the Stalinists, the Bolshevik Revolution was not monolithic: at one time it offered real architectural and human alternatives to the Terror. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction3Ch. 1Revolution and Architectural Schools of Thought15Ch. 2OSA and the People's Dreams52Ch. 3The Foundations of Stalinism in Architecture68Ch. 4The School of Revolutionary Architecture: VKhUTEMAS84Ch. 5Students and the Architectural Wars101Ch. 6Stalin's Agents in Architecture: VOPRA118Ch. 7The Deintellectualization of Architecture136Ch. 8Mikhail Okhitovich and the Terror in Architecture147Ch. 9Organizing a Victory Celebration166Ch. 10The Victory Congress?185Conclusion203Notes217Selected Bibliography247Index255

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Zusatzinfo	67 halftones
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-691-63506-4 / 0691635064
ISBN-13	978-0-691-63506-4 / 9780691635064
Zustand	Neuware