Советская архитектура и Запад : открытие и ассимиляция западного опыта в Советской архитектуре конца 1950-х – 1960-х годов
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Laboratorium-russian review of social research, 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 76-102
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ЯКУШЕНКО, Ольга, YAKUSHENKO, Olga, Советская архитектура и Запад : открытие и ассимиляция западного опыта в Советской архитектуре конца 1950-х – 1960-х годов, Laboratorium-russian review of social research, 2016, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 76-102 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/61518
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This article deals with the impact of western architecture on Soviet architecture during and after the Thaw and Nikita Khrushchev's reforms in the spheres of architecture and construction. By the late 1950s international postwar modernism became an official Soviet architectural style. The article explains how Soviet architects discovered and learned this new style: through magazines and books, both translated and in their original languages through business and tourist trips abroad and through personal connections and official channels. The main argument is that in the 1960s Soviet architecture became embedded in an international system of architecture but at its far periphery. Moreover, the visual westernizing makeover of Soviet architecture did not change its inner structure and has rather negative implications for the perception and evaluation of the architectural legacy of the post-Stalin era.