eastern bloc party

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 Keegan Adriance || Budapest 

The world’s longest metro bridge in Novosibirsk, 2145 meters.

Photograph of the Lenin Oil Shale Works at Kohtla-Jarve, Estonia, from The Little Picture Book Of Estonia, c1965 (by mikeyashworth)

Budapest, 1926

4 hungarian guidebooks (1962, 1964, 1967)

Happy Birthday ROSA LUXEMBURG (March 5, 1871 – January 15, 1919) "Socialism alone is in a position to complete the great work of permanent peace, to heal the thousand wounds from which humanity is bleeding, to transform the plains of Europe, trampled down by the passage of the apocryphal horseman of war, into blossoming gardens, to conjure up ten productive forces for every one destroyed, to awaken all the physical and moral energies of humanity, and to replace hatred and dissension with internal solidarity, harmony, and respect for every human being.” Image: ROSA LUXEMBURG MINES FOR SOLIDARITY Detail/ LABOR SOLIDARITY HAS NO BORDERS by Mike Alewitz Dedicated to the Undocumented Workers of the World Library for Social Studies & Research South-Central LA / 1990/ Approx 23’ x 48’ Complete Mural

The Soviet Union as seen by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1955.

Soviet Educational Advertisement in Yiddish, 1920 The “Kheyder” (traditional religious school) is compared to the modern “Rotn shul” (“Red School”): “The old school has fostered slates. The red school prepares healthy, capable working men, builders of the Soviet Order.”

Photo by Victor Bulla

Because as materialists Marxists believe the built environment reflects and constructs subjectivity, and produces (and is produced by) the capital which flows through it.There are two typical ‘genres’ of architecture which Marxists tend to post: 1. Modernist/Brutalist architecture surviving from a period when architects tried to imagine and create utopias.2. Derelict industrial sites, which show what happens when capital can no longer animate infrastructure profitably.

Moldova. Transdniester. 2004: Crows circle a statue of Lenin in front of the Supreme Soviet building. Transdniester is in many ways one of the last bastions of communist nostalgia in the former U.S.S.R.