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Blueprints and Blood
Hugh D. Hudson, Jr.
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Architektur
Beschreibung
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.
Originally published in 1993.
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Ideology, Nikita Khrushchev, Vesnin brothers, Perestroika, Show trial, Political violence, Layoff, Modern architecture, Disparagement, Suprematism, Classicism, Decentralization, Communism, Counter-revolutionary, Intelligentsia, Police state, Modernism, Russian architecture, Totalitarianism, ASNOVA, Gosplan, Economic reconstruction, Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, Mikhail Okhitovich, Karl Radek, Appeal to Reason (newspaper), Industrialisation, Trotskyism, Moisei Ginzburg, The Great Terror, Karl Kautsky, War, Bureaucrat, Scholasticism, Class conflict, El Lissitzky, Anti-intellectualism, Baroque architecture, Comrade, Ernst May, Stalinism, Criticism, Boris Iofan, Fellow traveller, Vkhutemas, Nikolai Bukharin, On the Eve, Bolsheviks, Wassily Kandinsky, Dictatorship, Art for art's sake, Soviet people, Marxist philosophy, Soviet Union, Civil engineering, Stalinist architecture, General Government, Socialist realism, Vladimir Shchuko, Diktat, Constructivist architecture, Lazar Kaganovich, Backwardness, Socialism in One Country, New Nation (United States), Plan W, Mart Stam, Romanticism, Turncoat, Superiority (short story)