Nikolai Miliutin v istorii sovetskoi arkhitektury. My nash, my novyi mir postroim (Nikolai Miliutin in the History of Soviet Architecture. We Shall Build a New World)
Moscow: Novoe lit obozrenie, 2013. sewn cl. Khmel’nitskii taps many archival sources, verbal and visual, to show the role N. A. Miliutin played in promoting avant-garde architecture in the Soviet Union and opposing the movement to Stalinist eclectic that suppressed such Soviet Russian innovations as constructivism. He became widely known in 1930, following the publication of his book, Sotsgorod (Socialist City), some copies of which made their way to the West. The idea of “a linear city,” expounded in this book, made a strong impression on European town-planners and immortalized the architect's name. From the fall of 1929 up to the summer of 1930 he directed the designing of new industrial cities, propagating the theory of “communal society.” Khmel’nitskii analyzes Miliutin's activities against a broad background and in a large variety of contexts, such as the political situation in the USSR, socialist cities, the collectivization of architecture, and critical reviews of Miliutin’s work in various official Soviet journals. Miliutin’s own writings, including the influential tract “The Socialist City” (Sotsgorod) and the article “The Most Important Tasks of Contemporary Soviet Architecture,” and those attacking him show how often art and politics collided in the 1920s and 30s. Reprinted is E. N. Miliutina’s short biography of her father, “We Shall Build a New World: Life and Work of N. A. Miliutin” (My nash, my novyi mir postroim: Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo N. A. Miliutina). 502 pp., 5 ½ x 8 ½ ins., 135 b-&-w illus., Rus. Item #525
ISBN: 9785444800492
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