https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4c61f4f7-f3ef-4a6c-bfda-02a56567f37e This third episode provides a criticism of one of the competing architectural trends in the early Soviet Union, the "constructivists" of OSA. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-3-critique-of-constructivism-1920-30s/ My video on the debate between Soviet mechanists and dialecticians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qgGkXxPcE&list=PLbnLysSug0vRPlhbtiFIzgmBi8ATSZv5t&index=1 SOURCES: Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period A. Bazdyrev, "History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes" https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937 Danilo Udovicki-Selb, Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 A. I. Mikhailov, “Formalism in Soviet architecture”, 1932 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/i-mihaylov-formalizm-v-sovetskoy-arhitekture-1932 K. Mikhailov, “VOPRA—ASNOVA—SASS”, 1931 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/k-mihaylov-vopra-asnova-sass-1931 N. Y. Kolli, “Tasks of Soviet architecture: The main stages of the development of Soviet architecture”, 1937 https://tehne.com/library/kolli-n-ya-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-osnovnye-etapy-razvitiya-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937 Mikhail Tsapenko, On the realistic foundations of Soviet architecture https://archive.org/details/tsapenko_mp_o_realisticheskikh_osnovakh_sovetskoi_arkhitektu Resolution of the Fine Art Section of the Institute of Lithuania and the ComAcademy on the petty-bourgeois direction in architecture (Leonidovism), adopted on December 20, 1930 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/rezolyuciya-sekcii-izo-instituta-liya-komakademii-o-melkoburzhuaznom-napravlenii-v-arhitekture-leonidovshchina-prinyataya-20121930-g E. H. Carr, Socialism in one country, 1924-1926. Vol. 2, London: Macmillan, 1959 Anatole Senkevitch Jr., "Introduction: Moisei Ginzburg and the emergence of a constructivist theory of architecture" in M. I. Ginzburg, Style and epoch, 1982, Cambridge, MA. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N.Y. by MIT Press. "Oswald Spengler" in Short Philosophical Dictionary, 1954. https://filslov.ru/508-shpengler-osvald.html V. Khazanova, "A. Burov 1900-57" in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky Kazimir Malevich, “Two Letters to Meyerhold,” Kunst & Museumjournaal 6 (1990) Charlotte Douglas, "Terms of Transition: The First Discussional Exhibition and the Society of Easel Painters", in Bobko Jane, and Dzhafarova Svetlana, ed., The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 Hudson, Udovicki-Selb, Carr, Senkevitch, Khazanova, Malevich and Douglas are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. All the other sources are recommended reading. Tsapenko, Bazdyrev and Kolli are particularly good sources. My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:15:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4c61f4f7-f3ef-4a6c-bfda-02a56567f37e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.