Soviet Cities Labour Life And Leisure

Author : Arseniy Kotov
Publisher : Fuel
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1916218415

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Soviet Cities: Labour, Life and Leisure by Arseniy Kotov Pdf

The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov intends to document these buildings and their surroundings before they are lost forever. He likes to take pictures in winter, during the "blue hour," which occurs immediately after sunset or just before sunrise. At this time, the warm yellow colors inside apartment-block windows contrast with the twilight gloom outside. To Kotov, this atmosphere reflects the Soviet period of his imagination. His impression of this time is unashamedly idealistic: he envisages a great civilization, built on a fair society, which hopes to explore nature and conquer space. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan to the grim monolithic high-rise dormitory blocks of inner-city Volgograd, Kotov captures the essence of the post-Soviet world. "The USSR no longer exists and in these photographs we can see what remains--the most outstanding buildings and constructions, where Soviet people lived and how Soviet cities once looked: no decoration, no bright colors and no luxury, only bare concrete and powerful forms." This superbly designed volume is the latest in Fuel's revelatory and inspiring series on Soviet-era architecture.

Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 052131397X

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Eight Hours for What We Will by Roy Rosenzweig Pdf

Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.

Author : Damon Murray
Publisher : Fuel
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916218458

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Soviet Seasons by Damon Murray Pdf

The post-Soviet republics seen over four different seasons, by acclaimed Russian photographer, Instagram sensation and Soviet Cities author Arseniy Kotov In Soviet Seasons, Arseniy Kotov reveals unfamiliar aspects of the post-Soviet terrain in sublime photographs. From snow-blanketed Siberia in winter to the mountains of the Caucasus in summer, these images show how a once powerful, utopian landscape has been affected by the weight of nature itself. This uniquely broad perspective could only be achieved by a photographer such as Kotov. Singularly dedicated to exploring every corner of his country, Kotov often hitchhikes across vast distances. On these journeys he chronicles not only the architectural achievements of the Soviet empire, but also its overlooked or simply undocumented constructions. He writes: "In this book I want to show how beautiful and diverse the cities and nature of this vast region are at different times of the year. I have traveled widely across Russia and its neighboring countries, where I captured the landscape of post-Soviet cities and witnessed the seasonal changes."

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195050004

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Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

Author : Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231549585

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City of Workers, City of Struggle by Joshua B. Freeman Pdf

From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York

Author : Detlef Mertins
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1838660534

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Soviet Space Graphics by Detlef Mertins Pdf

A wonderful, whimsical journey through the pioneering space-race graphics of the former Soviet Union This otherworldly collection of Soviet space-race graphics takes readers on a cosmic adventure through Cold War-era Russia. Created against a backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, the extraordinary images featured, taken from the period's hugely successful popular-science magazines, were a vital tool for the promotion of state ideology. Presenting more than 250 illustrations - depicting daring discoveries, scientific innovations, futuristic visions, and extraterrestrial encounters - Soviet Space Graphics unlocks the door to the creative inner workings of the USSR.

Author : Roberto Conte
Publisher : Fuel Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0995745552

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Soviet Asia by Roberto Conte Pdf

A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many photographed here for the first time Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces - all were constructed using a composite aesthetic. Influenced by Persian and Islamic architecture, pattern and mosaic motifs articulated a connection with Central Asia. Grey concrete slabs were juxtaposed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved forms: the brutal designs normally associated with Soviet-era architecture were reconstructed with Eastern characteristics. Many of the buildings shown in Soviet Asia are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and Modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition. The publication includes two contextual essays, one by Alessandro De Magistris (architect and History of Architecture professor, University of Milan, contributor to the book Vertical Moscow) and the other by Marco Buttino (Modern and Urban History professor, University of Turin, specializing in the history of social change in the USSR).

Author : William Moskoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349069460

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Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union by William Moskoff Pdf

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:244302808

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : Owen Hatherley
Publisher : Fuel Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822044512028

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Soviet Metro Stations by Owen Hatherley Pdf

Following his bestselling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844678822

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey Pdf

Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist.

Author : Frank Herfort
Publisher : Benteli Verlags
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3716518638

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CCCP Underground by Frank Herfort Pdf

Visions of Utopia: Palaces for the Working Class

Author : Anna Bronovitskaya,Nikolai Malinin,Olga Kazakova
Publisher : Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8090671462

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Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 by Anna Bronovitskaya,Nikolai Malinin,Olga Kazakova Pdf

Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture made during the three decades between Khrushchev and Gorbachev, from the naive modernism of the "thaw" of the late 1950s through postmodernism. Buildings include the Palace of Youth, the Rossiya cinema, the Pioneer Palace, the Ostankino TV Tower, the TASS headquarters, the "golden brains" of the Academy of Sciences and less well-known structures such as the House of New Life and the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant Museum. The authors situate Moscow's postwar architecture within the historical and political context of the Soviet Union, while also referencing developments in international architecture of the period.

Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534479227

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Forbidden City by James Ponti Pdf

In this third “thrilling” (Kirkus Reviews) installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies help a fellow agent in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls. After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission—once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can’t. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy’s tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney’s embedded as a junior reporter for a teen lifestyle site as she follows the daughter of a British billionaire on tour with the biggest act on her father’s music label to uncover what links both the band and the billionaire have to a recent threat from an old Soviet missile base. From a daring break-in at one of London’s most exclusive homes to a dangerous undercover mission to a desperate search and rescue operation on the streets of Beijing, the City Spies have their work cut out for them on their most dangerous mission yet.

Author : Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501727238

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Turizm by Anne E. Gorsuch,Diane P. Koenker Pdf

In the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was never as uncomplicated as throwing some suitcases in the car and heading for the beach. The emphasis was on individual self-improvement within the framework of the collective, an approach manifest in everything from the scheduling of physical exercise to the group tours organized for factory workers, Party cadres, and other segments of society. Like other Soviet-style utopian projects, socialist tourism, which was often heavily laden with rules and prescriptions, was a consciousness-raising project, part of the vast effort to forge new socialist men and women. Turizm is the first book to examine the history of tourism in Russia and eastern Europe from the tsarist period to the age of Soviet and east European mass tourism in the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors to this volume address topics including the roots of socialist tourism, the role of tourism in the making of nations and maintenance of empire, and ways in which the men and women of the "margins of Europe" understood themselves in relation to "Europe." Especially interesting are chapters that show how individuals pursued their own consumerist goals within the framework of collective tourism, obliging the regimes to adapt. Illustrated with period photographs and promotional materials, Turizm will appeal not only to historians of the region but also to anyone with an interest in consumer culture, travel, leisure, and nation-building.