https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/5e9a6c1e-f8ca-4f3d-a25c-2476ac9ce14f This second episode provides a criticism of one of the competing architectural trends in the early Soviet Union, the "rationalists/formalists" of ASNOVA. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/04/14/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-2-critique-of-rationalism-1920-30s/ My video on Deborin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FikbW79Y-M& SOURCES: Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period K. Mikhailov, "VOPRA—ASNOVA—SASS", 1931 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/k-mihaylov-vopra-asnova-sass-1931 Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/ Lenin, The Tasks of the Youth Leagues https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/02.htm Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937 Ladovsky, “The basis for constructing a theory of architecture”, Izvestia ASNOVA, 1926. A. I. Mikhailov, “Formalism in Soviet architecture”, 1932 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/i-mihaylov-formalizm-v-sovetskoy-arhitekture-1932 Mikhail Tsapenko, On the realistic foundations of Soviet architecture https://archive.org/details/tsapenko_mp_o_realisticheskikh_osnovakh_sovetskoi_arkhitektu “Series of skyscrapers for Moscow” by El Lissitzky, “Izvestia ASNOVA”, 1926. V. Khazanova, "Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932" in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky A. Bazdyrev, "History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm Hudson and Khazanova are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. All the other sources are recommended reading, though the VOPRA position is also not entirely correct and will be explained in a later episode. Tsapenko and Bazdyrev 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 05:01:54 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/5e9a6c1e-f8ca-4f3d-a25c-2476ac9ce14f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.