History of Soviet Architecture and City Planning (Part 1, first steps) (1917-1920s)

This first episode discusses the earliest Soviet policies on building and architecture and compares them with the Russian empire.

Playlist with all episodes in this series:
   • Soviet architecture  

Script:
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/0...

SOURCES:

Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Lenin, Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party
https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...

Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia

L. Perchik, The Reconstruction Of Moscow
https://archive.org/details/PerchikL....

I. Slonov, From the Life of Merchant Moscow

Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography

Hans Blumenfeld, “Planning in the Soviet Union”, TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 3.
https://archive.org/details/1942-blum...

Moscow City Council News, No. 19, October 1902, I. Verner, “The Housing Conditions of the Poorer People of Moscow”

Anatole Kopp, Town and revolution; Soviet architecture and city planning, 1917-1935

Engels, The Housing question
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period

Mayakovsky, “Order to the Army of the Arts”

V. Khazanova, “Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932″in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky

Article on G. B. Piranesi from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictiona...

Article on C. N. Ledoux from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictiona...

Parkins, Kopp, Porter and Khazanova are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. I recommend the work of Perchik (a marxist author) and Blumenfeld (sympathetic liberal writer).

---------------------------------
My patreon
  / thefinnishbolshevik  

My discord
  / discord  

My blog
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/

My Email
[email protected]