Blueprints and Blood (eBook)

The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937

Jr. Hudson Hugh D. (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7282-4 (ISBN)

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Analyzing "e;totalitarianism from below"e; 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 "e;settlements"e; designed to free the residents, especially women, from drudgery, allowing them to participate in creative work and to enjoy the "e;songs of larks."e; Resolving to obliterate this movement of human liberation, Stalinists in the field of architecture unleashed a "e;little"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 67 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: ad nauseam • Anomie • anti-intellectualism • Appeal to Reason (newspaper) • Architecture • Art for art's sake • ASNOVA • assassination • Backwardness • Baroque architecture • bolsheviks • Boris Iofan • bureaucrat • Civil Engineering • class conflict • Classicism • Communalism (political philosophy) • communism • comrade • Constructivist architecture • counter-revolutionary • Criticism • Cubism • cultural backwardness • Cultural revolution • decentralization • declaration of war • defamation • Dictatorship • dictatorship of the proletariat • Diktat • Disparagement • economic reconstruction • El Lissitzky • Ernst May • Fascist architecture • Fatherland • February Revolution • Fellow traveller • First five-year plan (Soviet Union) • General Government • Gosplan • Ideology • industrialisation • Intelligentsia • Karl Kautsky • Karl Radek • labor theory of value • Layoff • Lazar Kaganovich • louis sullivan • Mart Stam • Marxism • Marxist Philosophy • Mikhail Okhitovich • Modern Architecture • modernism • Moisei Ginzburg • Neoclassical architecture • New Nation (United States) • Nikita Khrushchev • Nikolai Bukharin • of education • On the Eve • Perestroika • Plan W • police state • Political violence • Populism • Primitive socialist accumulation • Renaissance Art • Romanticism • Russian architecture • Russian Association of Proletarian Writers • Russian Revolution • SCHOLASTICISM • show trial • Slavery • Smolny Institute • Socialism in One Country • Socialist Realism • Social Transformation • Soviet people • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Stalinist architecture • Superiority (short story) • Suprematism • Technology • The Great Terror • Totalitarianism • Trotskyism • Turncoat • Vesnin brothers • Vkhutemas • Vladimir Shchuko • war • War communism • Wassily Kandinsky • What Happened
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7282-0 / 1400872820
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7282-4 / 9781400872824