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« Août 1991 : je prends un billet sur Aéro ot et j’arrive à Moscou au moment où cet étrange coup d’état se déroule. Gorbatchev y perd le peu de crédit qui lui reste et Boris Eltsine donne le coup de grâce à une Union Soviétique en pleine décomposition. Sur place, la situation est confuse, personne ne sait vraiment qui tire les celles dans l’ombre. Les statues des héros du(...)
Jean-Christophe Béchet : URSS été 1991
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« Août 1991 : je prends un billet sur Aéro ot et j’arrive à Moscou au moment où cet étrange coup d’état se déroule. Gorbatchev y perd le peu de crédit qui lui reste et Boris Eltsine donne le coup de grâce à une Union Soviétique en pleine décomposition. Sur place, la situation est confuse, personne ne sait vraiment qui tire les celles dans l’ombre. Les statues des héros du communisme sont déboulonnées et deviennent des figures de carnaval gisantes dans les parcs de la capitale. Des gamins s’amusent au milieu de ces ex-idoles dans l’indifférence générale [...] » 30 ans après, Jean-Christophe Béchet reconstruit à partir des photographies et des documents de l’époque, son récit de la chute d’un monument de l’histoire, en photographie et en texte.
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Que faire de l’aventure communiste ? En quoi nous concerne-t-elle encore aujourd’hui ? Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin et l’intégration de la Chine et des pays de l’ex-Union soviétique à l’économie mondialisée, on considère souvent l’épisode communiste comme un simple accroc dans le déroulement de l’Histoire, une sorte de régression dans l’avancée irrésistible du(...)
Comment sauver le commun du communisme
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Que faire de l’aventure communiste ? En quoi nous concerne-t-elle encore aujourd’hui ? Depuis la chute du mur de Berlin et l’intégration de la Chine et des pays de l’ex-Union soviétique à l’économie mondialisée, on considère souvent l’épisode communiste comme un simple accroc dans le déroulement de l’Histoire, une sorte de régression dans l’avancée irrésistible du capitalisme. Et pourtant, si le communisme n’est plus l’horizon indépassable de notre temps, comme Sartre a pu un jour le déclarer, la nécessité de repenser le commun, elle, se manifeste avec plus d’insistance que jamais. Pour ceux qui éprouvent, de manière plus ou moins confuse et intermittente, le besoin de renouer avec l’action politique pour contrer l’isolement et l’impuissance générés par la barbarie néolibérale, la question la plus urgente de notre époque serait peut-être : comment sauver le commun du communisme ?
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Les architectures et les paysages témoignent de chronologies paradoxales. Comme l'ont illustré l'effet de la « dé-communisation » issue de la révolution de Maïdan et l'immédiate mise en musée des événements dans le Donbass, une partie de l'histoire est supprimée pour être tout de suite remplacée par une autre. Ce livre explore une Ukraine construite en diachronie,(...)
L'Ukraine Post-Euromaïdan dans ses liens intangibles avec l'Union Soviétique
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Les architectures et les paysages témoignent de chronologies paradoxales. Comme l'ont illustré l'effet de la « dé-communisation » issue de la révolution de Maïdan et l'immédiate mise en musée des événements dans le Donbass, une partie de l'histoire est supprimée pour être tout de suite remplacée par une autre. Ce livre explore une Ukraine construite en diachronie, constamment modifiée par les révolutions et les guerres. // The architectures and landscapes reveal the paradoxical chronologies that Ukraine cannot hide. As illustrated by the effect of 'decommunisation' post Maïdan, paralleled with the immediate establishment of the current affairs in Donbass, part of the history is suppressed to be immediately replaced with another. This book explores a Ukraine built in a diachrony, constantly modified by revolution and war.
Photography by Region
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This volume is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of(...)
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union
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This volume is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929. The book answers important questions of how the first Soviet industrialization drive was a catalyst for construction of thousands of new enterprises on remote sites across the Eurasian continent, an effort that spread to far-flung sites in other socialist states—and capitalist welfare states—for decades to follow.
Modernism
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In the early 20th century, the soviet architectural press became a forum for an extraordinary group of artist, designers, architects, and theorists to converge in debate over the shape of their present and futur built environment.
Architecture in print : Design and Debate in the Soviet Union 1919-1935
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In the early 20th century, the soviet architectural press became a forum for an extraordinary group of artist, designers, architects, and theorists to converge in debate over the shape of their present and futur built environment.
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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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The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin’s death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. Imported novels challenged fundamental tenets of Soviet ethics,(...)
To see Paris and die: the Soviet lives of Western culture
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The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin’s death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. Imported novels challenged fundamental tenets of Soviet ethics, while modernist paintings tested deep-seated notions of culture. Western films were eroticized even before viewers took their seats. The drama of cultural exchange and translation encompassed discovery as well as loss. Eleonory Gilburd explores the pleasure, longing, humiliation, and anger that Soviet citizens felt as they found themselves in the midst of this cross-cultural encounter. With the end of the Soviet Union, the Soviet West disappeared from the cultural map. Gilburd’s history reveals how domesticated Western imports defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, as well as its death and afterlife.
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'Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives' examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns which emerged as a distinctive sociopolitical project of urbanization in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
Monotown: Urban dreams, brutal imperatives
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'Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives' examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns which emerged as a distinctive sociopolitical project of urbanization in the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
Margaret Bourke-White : moments in history
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Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals.
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Soviet bus stops 2
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Photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union in this second volume of Soviet Bus Stops, discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new examples of this singular architectural form. A(...)
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Soviet bus stops 2
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Photographer Christopher Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union in this second volume of Soviet Bus Stops, discovering new stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine. Following exhaustive research, he drove more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world, in pursuit of new examples of this singular architectural form. A foreword by renowned architecture and culture critic Owen Hatherley reveals new information on the origins of the Soviet bus stop.
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