Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1937

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Analyzing "totalitarianism from below" in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people. Through a study of the ideas and constructions of the

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"Hugh D. Hudson, Jr., offers a detailed history of exactly how and why ... the Stalinist classicists ended the run of astonishing modernist architectural works produced during the early years of the USSR... [His words] are persuasive and refreshing."--Journal of the Society for Architecture Historians