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This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan (1891–1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan's story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union's most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov, Lenin's successor,(...)
Stalin's architect: power and survival in Moscow
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This is the first major publication on the remarkable life and career of Boris Iofan (1891–1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin. Iofan's story is an insight into the troubled relationship of all successful architects with power. A gifted designer and a committed Communist, Iofan became the Soviet Union's most celebrated architect after Alexei Rykov, Lenin's successor, persuaded him to return to Moscow from Rome with his aristocratic wife, Olga Sasso-Ruffo. Iofan was at the heart of political life in the Soviet Union and his work is key to understanding its official culture. This book is an exploration of architecture as an instrument of statecraft. It is an insight into the key moments of 20th-century politics and culture from a unique perspective, and the personal story of a remarkable individual who witnessed many of the most dramatic turning points of modern history.
Architectural Theory
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Au cours de cinq voyages à Volgograd entre 2008 et 2010, Maurice Schobinger a réalisé un témoignage photographique poignant de la ville martyre. Ces images sont classées en quatre chapitres : Portraits et témoins, Mémoire d'une ville, Octobre Rouge, Transports, portraits et décors. L'ouvrage est enrichi par la publication intégrale du journal de Serafima Fedorovna(...)
Photography monographs
November 2010
Maurice Schobinger: Stalingrag/Volgograd
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Au cours de cinq voyages à Volgograd entre 2008 et 2010, Maurice Schobinger a réalisé un témoignage photographique poignant de la ville martyre. Ces images sont classées en quatre chapitres : Portraits et témoins, Mémoire d'une ville, Octobre Rouge, Transports, portraits et décors. L'ouvrage est enrichi par la publication intégrale du journal de Serafima Fedorovna Voronina, tenu entre le 10 septembre 1942 et le 25 octobre de la même année. La voix d'une maîtresse d'école, simple civile prise au piège de la guerre. Une voix qui finira étouffée sous les bombardements. L'ensemble forme un subtil mélange entre hommage, mémoire et renaissance d'une ville.
Photography monographs
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In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. This volume explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally(...)
Moscow monumental: Soviet skyscrapers and urban life in stalin's capital
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In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. This volume explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital. It tells a story that is both local and broadly transnational, taking readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.
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Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1
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During the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. ''Showcasing the Great Experiment'' explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to(...)
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1
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During the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. ''Showcasing the Great Experiment'' explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards the West. While many visitors were profoundly affected by their Soviet tours, so too was the Soviet system. The early experiences of building showcases and teaching outsiders to perceive the future-in-the-making constitute a neglected international part of the emergence of Stalinism at home. Michael David-Fox contends that each side critically examined the other, negotiating feelings of inferiority and superiority, admiration and enmity, emulation and rejection. By the time of the Great Purges, these tensions gave way to the dramatic triumph of xenophobia and isolationism; whereas in the twenties the new regime assumed it had much to learn from Western modernity, by the Stalinist thirties the Soviet order was declared superior in all respects.
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Les frères Yakov et Evgeny Henkin sont nés autour de 1900 à Rostov-sur-le-Don, en Russie, dans une famille juive aisée. Ils partagent la même passion pour la photographie, à laquelle ils s'adonneront, séparément, tout au long des années 1930 - l'un à Leningrad, l'autre à Berlin. Dans ces capitales bouleversées par les changements politiques, les deux frères choisissent de(...)
Les frères Henkin: photographes à Leningrad et à Berlin
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Les frères Yakov et Evgeny Henkin sont nés autour de 1900 à Rostov-sur-le-Don, en Russie, dans une famille juive aisée. Ils partagent la même passion pour la photographie, à laquelle ils s'adonneront, séparément, tout au long des années 1930 - l'un à Leningrad, l'autre à Berlin. Dans ces capitales bouleversées par les changements politiques, les deux frères choisissent de promener leurs objectifs à travers les parcs et les boulevards ; avec une liberté saisissante pour l'époque, ils documentent les manifestations, les compétitions sportives, les fêtes populaires. Seules quelques scènes de rue témoignent de la montée du nazisme et du stalinisme. Par cette archive photographique oubliée pendant près de soixante ans, les frères Henkin nous donnent à voir un tout autre visage de l'Allemagne et de la Russie des années 1930 : souriant, joyeux, presque insouciant. Dans leurs images, qui refusent toute propagande ou utilitarisme, pointe un indéfectible amour pour la figure humaine et les gens ordinaires.
Photography monographs
La révolution par l'amitié
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Ce sont les vainqueurs qui écrivent l’histoire, même parmi les vaincus. Voilà pourquoi nul ne parle et nul n’entend parler de Dionys Mascolo. Ennemi du stalinisme avant la destalinisation, de Gaulle dès mai 58 et des guerres coloniales, pourfendeur de la misère des intellectuels français, de la paresse des militants et de toutes les idéologies de la mauvaise conscience,(...)
La révolution par l'amitié
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Ce sont les vainqueurs qui écrivent l’histoire, même parmi les vaincus. Voilà pourquoi nul ne parle et nul n’entend parler de Dionys Mascolo. Ennemi du stalinisme avant la destalinisation, de Gaulle dès mai 58 et des guerres coloniales, pourfendeur de la misère des intellectuels français, de la paresse des militants et de toutes les idéologies de la mauvaise conscience, inspirateur rarement cité de Debord et de Deleuze, ami de Bataille et de Blanchot, lecteur de Nietzsche et de Saint-Just, acteur de mai 68, révolutionnaire, Dionys Mascolo appartient à la tradition cachée du communisme français, celle qui fait que ce mot est demeuré malgré tout prononçable dans la seconde partie du xxe siècle – le communisme non comme idée, perspective ou hypothèse, mais comme exigence et mouvement vitaux, comme impossibilité de s’accommoder de ce qui est, comme refus du mensonge social. On trouvera dans ce recueil des textes s’étalant des années 1950 aux années 1980, et témoignant du vaste champ d’intervention de Dionys Mascolo.
Critical Theory