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Soviet Metro Stations

Soviet Metro Stations

Hardcover

Transportation GeneralGeneral PhotographyRussian History

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0995745560
ISBN13: 9780995745568
Publisher: Fuel Pub
Published: Sep 24 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.30 Depth: 6.80
Language: English

From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro

For us, said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, there was something supernatural about the Metro. Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these subways were used as a propaganda artwork--a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and constructivist ideas and infused them with the notion that communism would mean a communal luxury for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia.

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