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- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Art & Architecture 9783110413502
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Archive 1931-1999 9783110442496
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- 1 online resource : 67 halftones.
- Summary
- 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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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- Princeton Legacy Library ; 1746
- Uniform Title
- Blueprints and Blood (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Blueprints and Blood (Online)
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- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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- Contents
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustiations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Revolution and Architectural Schools of Thought -- 2. OSA and the People's Dreams -- 3. The Foundations of Stalinism in Architecture -- 4. The School of R evolutionary Architecture: VKhUTEMAS -- 5. Students and the Architectural Wars -- 6. Stalin's Agents in Architecture: VOPRA -- 7. The Deintellectualization of Architecture -- 8. Mikhail Olchitovich and the Terror in Architecture -- 9. Organizing a Victory Celebration -- 10. The Victory Congress? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
- LCCN
- 10.1515/9781400872824
- OCLC
- ssj0002708949
- Author
Hudson, Hugh D.
- Title
Blueprints and Blood [electronic resource] : The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937 / Hugh D. Hudson.
- Imprint
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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text file PDF
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Princeton Legacy Library ; 1746
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Access restricted to authorized users.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
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Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Art & Architecture 9783110413502
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Archive 1931-1999 9783110442496
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10.1515/9781400872824 doi