https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/d784c4e1-997e-441d-b823-cedb507dc4f9 This fourth episode discusses the theory of Socialist Realism and how it applies to architecture. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-4-socialist-realist-theory/ SOURCES* Maxim Gorky, Soviet Literature https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1934/soviet-literature.htm Stalin, The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1925/05/18.htm Lenin, Critical Remarks on the National Question https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/crnq/index.htm Lenin, On the National Pride of the Great Russians https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/dec/12a.htm Lenin, On Proletarian Culture https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/08.htm Zhdanov, On Literature, Music and Philosophy https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/lit_crit/zhdanov/lit-music-philosophy.htm Catherine Cooke, "Socialist realist architecture: theory and practice" in ed. Matthew Cullerne Bown & Brandon Taylor, Art of the Soviets: painting, sculpture, and architecture in a one-party state, 1917-1992 K. S. Alabyan, Tasks of Soviet architecture, 1937 https://tehne.com/library/alabyan-k-s-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937 Boris Groys, "The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the Russian avant-garde", in ed. Hans Günther, The Culture of the Stalin period, London Macmillan, 1990 A. G. Tsires, Art of architecture https://archive.org/details/tsires-iskusstvo-architektury-1946-art-of-architecture-compressed/tsires_iskusstvo_architektury%201946%20art%20of%20architecture_compressed%20%281%29/ J. A. Kornfeld, "Architecture of the modern theater in the West", 1937 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/ya-kornfeld-arhitektura-sovremennogo-teatra-na-zapade-1937 Catherine Cooke, "Beauty as a Route to 'the Radiant Future': Responses of Soviet Architecture", Journal of Design History Vol. 10, No. 2, Design, Stalin and the Thaw (1997) "Ustav soiuza sovetskikh arkhitektorov SSSR," Arkitekturnaia gazeta, 23 July 1937 Alexei Tarkhanov, Stalinist architecture Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937 A. Bazdyrev, "History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm *Tarkhanov & Hudson are dumb anti-communists whose work I don't recommend. Despite being bourgeois Groys is not terrible, and Cooke is actually quite good. The other sources are marxist sources, which I recommend. My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:19:16 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/d784c4e1-997e-441d-b823-cedb507dc4f9 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.