https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/6589e3f1-90f1-45b0-9bd6-855f7ee01076 This first episode discusses the earliest Soviet policies on building and architecture and compares them with the Russian empire. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/02/07/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-1-first-steps/ SOURCES: Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm Lenin, Draft and Explanation of a Programme for the Social-Democratic Party https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1895/misc/x01.htm Maurice Frank Parkins, City planning in soviet Russia L. Perchik, The Reconstruction Of Moscow https://archive.org/details/PerchikL.TheReconstructionOfMoscow.--Moscow1936/mode/2up I. Slonov, From the Life of Merchant Moscow Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A biography Hans Blumenfeld, “Planning in the Soviet Union”, TASK Planning and Architecture, Vol. 3. https://archive.org/details/1942-blumenfeld-regional-and-city-planning-soviet-union-task Moscow City Council News, No. 19, October 1902, I. Verner, “The Housing Conditions of the Poorer People of Moscow” Anatole Kopp, Town and revolution; Soviet architecture and city planning, 1917-1935 Engels, The Housing question https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/housing-question/ Andreĭ Vladimirovich Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period Mayakovsky, “Order to the Army of the Arts” V. Khazanova, “Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932″in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky Article on G. B. Piranesi from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979) https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Piranesi%2C+Giovanni+Battista Article on C. N. Ledoux from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979) https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ledoux%2c+Claude-Nicolas Parkins, Kopp, Porter and Khazanova are anti-communist bourgeois writers, Ikonnikov is a Soviet revisionist writer. I recommend the work of Perchik (a marxist author) and Blumenfeld (sympathetic liberal writer). 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 00:29:33 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/6589e3f1-90f1-45b0-9bd6-855f7ee01076 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.