https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/f4ad8e11-2da2-420d-a105-8709d876e55e This 8th episode discusses the bourgeois classicist trend and the 'proletarian architects' of VOPRA in the 1920s & 30s USSR. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTTYxx76kBZcN8ZLNCNdEZl Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/history-of-soviet-architecture-and-city-planning-part-8-criticism-of-vopra-and-classicism-1920s-30s/ SOURCES* Alabyan, "Tasks of Soviet architecture", 1937 https://tehne.com/library/alabyan-k-s-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937 Bazdyrev, History of Soviet Architecture: From Palaces to Boxes https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv21n1/architecture.htm Tsapenko, On the realistic foundations of Soviet architecture https://archive.org/details/tsapenko_mp_o_realisticheskikh_osnovakh_sovetskoi_arkhitektu Ksenia Choate, From "Stalinkas" to "Khrushchevkas": The Transition to Minimalism in Urban Residential Interiors in the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 “Soviet Art”, July 29, 1950, About the skill of the Soviet architect Dmitry Khmelnitsky, "Stalin and architecture" Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and blood: the Stalinization of Soviet architecture, 1917-1937 Ikonnikov, Russian architecture of the Soviet period K. Mikhailov, "VOPRA—ASNOVA—SASS", 1931 https://tehne.com/event/arhivsyachina/k-mihaylov-vopra-asnova-sass-1931 V. Khazanova, "Soviet Architectural Associations 1917-1932" in Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, ed. O. A. Shvidkovsky Udovicki-Selb, Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938 Kolli, "Tasks of Soviet architecture: The main stages of development of Soviet architecture", 1937 https://tehne.com/library/kolli-n-ya-zadachi-sovetskoy-arhitektury-osnovnye-etapy-razvitiya-sovetskoy-arhitektury-moskva-1937 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 01:36:44 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/f4ad8e11-2da2-420d-a105-8709d876e55e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.