#soviétisme

Russian Teacher ’Forced To Quit Job’ For Reading Poems By Authors Persecuted Under Stalin
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ST. PETERSBURG — A Russian teacher says she was forced to quit her job at a school in the city of St. Petersburg after she read poems to her class by two authors who had been persecuted during Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s purge in the 1930s and 1940s.

Serafima Saprykina wrote on Facebook on February 6 that the school’s principal forced her to leave her job after she read poems by Daniil Kharms and Aleksandr Vvedensky during one of her lessons with 10th graders, even though the school’s deputy principal had approved the lesson.

According to Saprykina, the principal called the two poets “enemies of the people” who “were properly captured by the NKVD (Soviet Interior Ministry) and tortured for their crimes,” and “whose verses can be only discussed in your Bohemian kitchens.”

#russie #censure #ex-urss #soviétisme

The Soviet palace that people love to hate - BBC Reel
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The Soviet palace that people love to hate
10 January 2022|Culture

A German city before World War Two and geographically disconnected from the rest of Russia, Kaliningrad remains a mystery to many mainland Russians and their European neighbours.

How does a 50-year-old unfinished building help explain the complicated history of the city and inspire the restoration of other nearby ruins?

#kaliningrad #soviétisme @architecture

Tbilisi bypass road, sortie nord-ouest, sur la...
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Tbilisi, Géorgie

Bypass road, Avchala Street, sortie nord-ouest, route de Gori

41°49’34.0« N - 44°44’46.9 »E Photos : Philippe Rekacewicz

Mars 2007 #photographie #Caucase #soviétisme #Géorgie #Regards_photographiques

En images : un photographe se porte en défenseur des datchas soviétiques, cet héritage sous-coté - Russia Beyond FR
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Le photographe de renom Fiodor Savintsev, dont les œuvres ont été publiées par de grands magazines et journaux internationaux, s’est, pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, découvert une nouvelle passion – la datcha soviétique.

#soviétisme #photographie #ex-urss

Being Finnish : A Guide For Soviet Spies

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An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals, with careful advice on the behavior, clothing, and table manners of Finns.
Pages from the Cold War-era training document, Life, Morals, And Customs Of The Population Of Finland was first posted online in early 2020. Although not attributed, historian and Soviet archive expert Eduard Andryushchenko says the manual is almost certainly authentic.

Andryushchenko believes the document was probably made in the 1950s or early 1960s and appears to have been leaked by someone with access to a Soviet library but without permission to publish such material.

The scanned pages are shown below with English translations of the Russian text.

#espionnage #soviétisme

Imagining the Socialist City

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Did the socialist city ever exist? Is thinking about it entirely pointless until we succeed in the much more difficult task of overcoming capitalism? And — if we break the rule that we’re not supposed to conjure images of utopia — what could it actually look like?

#architecture #socialisme #ex-urss #soviétisme

Comment l’URSS a terrifié les États-Unis avec une arme géante factice - Russia Beyond FR

Super marrant comme histoire : le suppositoire géant qui change la face du monde

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Dans la course aux armements des années 60, les deux puissances rivales utilisaient tous les éléments d’intimidation possibles. Cependant, personne ne savait que les Soviétiques étaient si doués pour le bluff.

#soviétisme #guerre_froide

Paranoid by Design : Vintage Soviet Dual Custody Padlock
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Comment l’URSS protégeait la propriété du peuple.

#sécurité #URSS #soviétisme #histoire

Rooftop ateliers: how socialist urban planners supported artists | by Kuba Snopek | Oct, 2020 | Medium

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I have always been fascinated by cities with vibrant art scenes. But how are they created? How does it happen that some neighborhoods have an artistic genius loci and some don’t? What can architects and planners do, in order to make art flourish? In my book “Belyayevo Forever” I was exploring ways how to preserve spaces rich with artistic activity. But how are such spaces made in the first place?

Quite accidentally I have discovered an approach, which seems to have been popular in the socialist countries. In many neighborhoods, planners added rooftop ateliers for artists on top of buildings. Until today, such ateliers exist in former socialist cities and preserve their original function.

#soviétisme #architecture #logement #habitat #ex-urss

The Village Genius: Astonishing Photos Of Soviet Life Found In An Abandoned House
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In the spring of 2016, film student Victor Galusca was exploring a sleepy village in his native Moldova when the 23-year-old noticed some photographic negatives in the rubble of an abandoned house.

The discarded pictures were the life’s work of Zaharia Cusnir, an unknown amateur photographer who died in 1993.

The villager had struggled professionally under the communist regime and battled alcoholism, yet he left behind some of the most brilliant portraits of rural life ever captured on film.

For the past three years, with the permission of the photographer’s daughter, who dismissed her father’s work as “garbage,”​ Galusca and his photography teacher have been cleaning and scanning the stunning find, which they released on a website in January.

Galusca, who is a freelance contributor to RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service, agreed to share images here showing his discovery of one of the greatest chroniclers of life behind the Iron Curtain.

Ces photos de Staline soigneusement cachées au peuple soviétique - Russia Beyond FR
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Après la publication des archives secrètes des bolcheviks, la façon dont la nomenklatura soviétique cachait des informations à son propre peuple a éclaté au grand jour. La censure n’a pas épargné les photographies du principal dirigeant du pays.

#staline #soviétisme #rigolo

Lubetkin in Russia: From civil war-ravaged USSR to Socialist Realism | Essay | Architectural Review
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Lifelong Marxist and proletarian architect #Berthold_Lubetkin shed light on all things Russian, critically presenting the stories of avant-garde Soviet architecture, Constructivism and Socialist Realism to the rest of the world

‘To the English reader’, writes the editor of the Architectural Review in its May 1932 issue, ‘a discussion of architecture in terms of “ideology” will be somewhat startling. The very word may give him a headache’. So did the AR introduce ‘Berthold Lubetkin, one of the well-known proletarian architects’ to the English-speaking public, in a special issue on Russia. Here, for the first time, Georgian-born Lubetkin began his role as explainer of all things Soviet, one which he would resume 20 years later. Although he never built a single structure in the USSR and spent far less of his career there than in Britain, he was a semi-official architectural attaché of the Soviet government, working on its pavilions at international expos, before going into private practice first in Paris, then more famously in London. He was also a lifelong Marxist, and it is this especially that was expected to alarm the readers of the AR.

#soviétisme #réalisme_socialiste

Retour sur les arrestations, les conditions de vie et de travail des camps, mais aussi sur la place du Goulag dans l’économie soviétique #histoire #politique #économie #travail #goulag

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Goulag, mode d’emploi

Retour sur les arrestations, les conditions de vie et de travail des camps, mais aussi sur la place du Goulag dans l’économie soviétique : #histoire #politique #économie #travail #goulag

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Goulag, mode d’emploi

« L’archipel du Goulag » d’Alexandre Soljenitsyne et les « Récits de la Kolyma » de Chalamov ont contribué à faire connaître l’un des systèmes répressifs les plus meurtriers du XXe siècle. De 1920 à 1950, le Goulag, ou Direction Centrale des Camps, compta 20 millions de prisonniers, 6 millions de déportés, 4 millions de morts. Quand Joseph Staline proclamait que « la vie était devenue meilleure », un système concentrationnaire d’environ 400 camps voyait le jour sur le territoire soviétique. Hors norme, à la fois gigantesque et sans égal, il y emprisonna un soviétique sur six.

Ces prisonniers – les zeks – étaient contraints de travailler jusqu’à l’épuisement dans le froid et le dénuement le plus total. Ils étaient condamnés à l’isolement, la peur et la faim au ventre. Au nom d’une volonté de développement économique, l’humiliation était permanente et leur existence en a longtemps été occultée à l’Est, et niée à l’Ouest.

À travers différents exemples, Nicolas Werth rappelle les grands chantiers que furent le Canal Mer Blanche-Mer Baltique, la Voie morte. Il évoque les camps des îles Solovki, la Kolyma, Vorkouta et esquisse rapidement les portraits des bourreaux du Goulag que furent Dzerjinski, Iagoda, Iejov, Béria. Il rend hommage aux grands témoins persécutés tels que Soljenitsyne, Chalamov, Guinzbourg, Margolin, Rossi, Buber-Neumann et il n’oublie pas cependant toutes les victimes anonymes (...)

Que faire d’une statue ? Le cas Lénine | Portfolios | Mediapart
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#memorie #lenin #sovietisme #Ukraine

The abandoned Soviet-era resort refugees call home - BBC News
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Tskaltubo: Georgia’s abandoned resort that refugees call home

Georgia plans to spend millions turning an abandoned Soviet-era spa town into a tourist attraction.

But Tskaltubo’s decaying sanatoriums are also home to refugees from a past civil war, and their future is uncertain.

Reporter: Rayhan Demytrie

Filmed and edited by Matthew Goddard

#soviétisme #géorgie #caucase

« La Fin de l’Homme Rouge » de #Svetlana_Alexievitch
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/fictions-theatre-et-cie/la-fin-de-lhomme-rouge-de-svetlana-alexievitch

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La fin de l’homme rouge fait résonner les voix des témoins brisés de l’époque soviétique, voix suppliciées des Goulags, voix des survivants et des bourreaux, voix magnifiques de ceux qui ont cru qu’un jour « ceux qui ne sont rien deviendraient tout », et sont aujourd’hui orphelins d’utopie.

#urss #ex-urss #soviétisme #histoire

Антисоветская живопись | Историческая память: XX век

▻https://istpamyat.ru/diskussii-ocenka-novosti/antisovetskaya-zhivopis

Ниже — подборка антисоветской живописи разных лет. Часть этих картин была написана еще в СССР, тайно, «в стол», публика увидела их лишь после падения советского режима. Другая часть картин написана в 1990-е гг. и позднее, когда цензура и Лубянка уже не угрожали авторам. Обе части по-своему интересны, особенно сегодня, когда в РФ вовсю идет реставрация совка и насаждается ностальгия об этих временах. А там есть, что вспомнить.

Sélection de peintures antisoviétiques. Certains de ces tableaux ont été secrètement peints en URSS, mais n’ont été exposés qu’après la chute du régime soviétique. Une autre partie de ces œuvres date des années 1990.

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#art #soviétisme #urss #ex-urss #réalisme_socialiste

Is this the smartest street in the world? - BBC Reel
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Is this the smartest street in the world?
19 December 2019|History

The academic town of Akademgorodok in Siberia was created by Russian mathematician Mikhaïl Alekseïevitch Lavrentiev, who wanted to install a safe haven for scientists in the middle of Siberia. Such isolation from Moscow created a fertile scientific and cultural nest away from the influence of the State and its politics.

Video by Irina Sedunova

#sovietisme #urss #ex-urss #urban_matter

Cafe in a railway station - PKP Warszawa Powiśle

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Socialist artist Vladimir Mayakovsky’s agitprop posters for revolutionary Russia | Dangerous Minds

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a poet, playwright, artist and actor. He cut a rather dashing, nay swashbuckling figure—with his shaved head and Crowleyan features—during the height of the Russian Revolution. He dressed like a dandy. He was hailed as the “artistic genius of the Revolution.” Performed poetry exhorting workers to rally to the cause. Produced plays that were considered the greatest of their day. And he created a series of agitprop posters—promoting news and political ideas—that became an art form launching a whole new approach to Soviet propaganda and graphic design.

In the 1980s, I was fortunate enough to see an exhibition of Mayakovsky’s artwork at the the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. The exhibition was dominated by his bright, colorful posters with their (often simplistic) political messages. These fragile yellowed sheets of paper had once been displayed in shop windows or distributed to the countryside to inspire the largely illiterate Russian populace.

#soviétisme #urss #ex-urss #urss #union_soviétique #design #graphic_design

Palaces of the people: Soviet metro stations - in pictures | Cities | The Guardian

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Christopher Herwig spent many early mornings capturing the pre-rush-hour emptiness of Soviet metro stations with their exhilarating mix of propaganda, exquisite mosaics and cosmic lighting fixtures

#soviétisme #ex-urss #mosaïque #métro #héritage #mémoire

Hidden and unmarked: vivid photos from inside Russia’s former closed towns — The Calvert Journal

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Hitchhiking across Russia, American documentary photographer Christine Armbruster recalls the times she’d camp beside rivers or sleep on the floors of friendly locals she’d met that morning. Except for one bed and breakfast near Lake Baikal, there were no hostels in the places she visited. In many cases, the towns themselves did not exist on a map. During the Soviet era, over 2,000 towns and cities were built. Armbruster visited and documented those cities that were closed or secret, which she found through dubious archive material online.

Probingly gentle, the photographs in Made of Steel depict homemade delicacies, national celebrations, and large swathes of industrial areas: scenes of everyday Russia that will be familiar to many but remain hidden to many tourists. We asked the photographer to recount her journey. Here, she tells The Calvert Journal about the communities she encountered who have been left to survive on their own.

#soviétisme #urss #ex-urss #urban_matter

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Cette représentation originale de la « conférence de Yalta » par Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid (1984)

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#art #soviétisme

Review: The #Red_Atlas, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent | THE Books

▻https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-the-red-atlas-john-davies-and-alexander-j-kent-universi

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n the early 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, the eminent cartographer J. B. Harley transformed the study of maps in a series of brilliant articles deconstructing the presumptions that cartography was a scientific, objective study of physical space. Having read his Derrida, Foucault and Barthes, Harley argued that all maps were shaped by prevailing social, political and ideological factors and represented the world according to the vested interests of those who made or paid for them.

Most scholars assumed that Harley’s innovation came from reading post-structuralist critical theory, but John Davies and Alexander Kent’s brilliant Red Atlas, on the extraordinary Soviet project to map the world from the 1940s until the empire’s collapse in 1989, suggests that Harley and his disciples were also responding to how state power during this particular confrontational period appropriated cartography to further its political ideology.

#atlas #géographie #cartographi #soviétisme #union_soviétique #urss #ex_urss