Palaces for the people: five communist buildings | Art and design | The Guardian
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Cette perspective m’a toujours fasciné. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, elle m’évoque “Playtime” de Jacques tati
Beyond the stereotype – from a workers’ club in Moscow to the mosaics and marbles of the Kiev Metro, these structures inspired by the communist project are often surprising as well as extraordinary
Owen Hatherley
Sat 20 Jun 2015 11.00 BST
Last modified on Wed 29 Nov 2017 11.39 GMT
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Postcards from the past.
Back to the USSR …
The story of architecture under the peculiar, now long-dead system that is today called (but never called itself) communism is generally considered a story of sad decline. After the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917, there was more than a decade of experimentation, spurred both by the possibilities of the new system (land nationalisation was popular with architects) and the hopes of world revolution and a new communal society it engendered. It ended in the 1980s with the construction of cities ringed with block after block of apartments, like the housing estates of the west but bigger and more monolithic. If it began with images of technology as fantasy and liberation – such as Vladimir Tatlin’s 1919 Monument to the Third International,