From New Socialist Cities to Thaw Experimentation in Arctic Townscapes

Leningrad Architects Attempt to Modernise the Soviet North

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12299987
AutoresEkaterina Kalemeneva (0000-0002-8747-3913, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume71
Fascículo3
Páginas426-449
Data de publicação2019-03-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEurope Asia Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0966-8136 • E-ISSN: 1465-3427
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09668136.2019.1589423
OpenAlexW2940001260
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas29

The article examines a crucial shift in models of domestication of the Soviet Far North during the Thaw period. The closure of the Gulag system and the social transformations of the 1950s caused changes in the social space of the Soviet North and in the role of expert knowledge in the USSR. By focusing on modernist urban projects for the Soviet Arctic, I analyse how urban specialists during the Thaw attempted to formulate a new conception of the North as a place for ‘ordinary life’ and therefore transform a peripheral region into an ‘average’ Soviet space

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Arctic · Closure (psychology · Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Gulag · Period (music · Physical geography · Political science · The arctic · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Geology · Oceanography