Main entry:

Hudson, Hugh D.

Title & Author:

Blueprints and blood : the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937 / Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994.

Description:

xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Revolution and architectural schools of thought -- CHAPTER 2: OSA and the people's dreams -- CHAPTER 3: The foundations of Stalinism in architecture -- CHAPTER 4: The school of revolutionary architecture: VKhUTEMAS -- CHAPTER 5: Students and the architectural wars -- CHAPTER 6: Stalin's agents in architecture: VOPRA -- CHAPTER 7: The deintellectualization of architecture -- CHAPTER 8: Mikhail Okhitovich and the terror in architecture -- CHAPTER 9: Organizing a victory celebration -- CHAPTER 10: The victory congress? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

0691033498 (acid-free paper)
9780691033495 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič 1878-1953
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Socialist realism and architecture Soviet Union.
Constructivism (Architecture) Soviet Union.
Réalisme socialiste et architecture URSS.
Constructivisme (Architecture) URSS.
Constructivism (Architecture)
Socialist realism and architecture
Architektur
Sozialistischer Realismus
Bouwkunst.
Stalinisme.
Sociaal realisme.
Communisme.
Socialist realism and architecture Russia.
Architecture Russia 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Russia.
Réalisme socialiste et architecture.
Constructivisme (architecture) URSS.
Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Architecture History
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Form/genre:

Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 111024
Call No.: ID:94-B67
Status: Available