Imagine Moscow: Architecture Propaganda Revolution Steierhoffer Eszter

The Soviet city that was never built: six visions of Moscow from the great architects of modernist RussiaAfter the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin moved the Russian capital from the imperial, westward-looking city of St. Moscow was to be the ideal Soviet city, its factories, theaters, communal housing and government buildings representing the strength and potential of a new revolutionary society.Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution explores Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and early 1930s. Petersburg back to Moscow, the traditional heart of Russia.

Featuring rarely seen material, this book portrays a vision of the Soviet capital that was never realized but which still haunts the city today.Imagine Moscow focuses on six unbuilt architectural landmarks, each telling its own