It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, the place and years of a utopia so radical it aspired not so much to end the old system of the czars as to upend human nature itself. The new world o
While the architecture, cinema, or the graphic arts of the Russian avant-gardes have been studied in great detail, other disciplines such as interior design or furniture design are still largely unknown, as is the history of their evolution from the
Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego developed an interest in Soviet architecture while working on projects in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Belarus. For their new book Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia, pub
The centenary of the Russian Revolution has brought on the inevitable deluge of publications, but perhaps none as exceptional as The House of Government. Written by Yuri Slezkine, a historian born and educated in Russia who emigrated to the United St
The thematic and objective approach to the subjects of the images of Danila Tkachenko (Moscow, 1989) frame his work in the field of documentary photography. In his still brief career, the young Russian has already received several awards, including t
A century has passed, but the influence of the Russian Revolution can still be seen in the work of artists, designers, and architects around the world. To mark its centenary, the exhibition Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution gathers
During the thirty years she worked in the Soviet Space Program, architect Galina Balashova (Moscow, 1931) managed to add beauty and harmony to the high-technology world of spacecrafts, laboratories, and survival equipments. After the launch in 1951 o
Lázar Markóvich Lissitzky (Pochinok, 1890- Moscow, 1941) was a multifaceted artist, a bridge between the European avant-gardes and the cultural transformations of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution. El Lissitzky studied architectural eng
En sus últimos años, el régimen soviético se descompuso ideológicamente. El reciente libro ‘Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed’, de Taschen, da cuenta de la singular arquitectura de este convulso periodo.
The East is at once promise and threat. As the European Union extends towards the old glacis of the Soviet Union, the rediscovery of the East brings along formidable political experiences, important economic opportunities and fertile social exchanges
