On the path to the Socialist Bloc

摘要

This is perhaps how revolutions start, at least in taste: a 'look' becomes less abhorrent, begins to have an appeal long before scholarship has caught up. The orgy of destruction is in full swing when, against all the odds, someone begins to think that there may be something worth looking at there after all, but no one has had a chance to find out how it got there. This is a book about a 'look' rather than architecture - a collection of photographs of buildings and urban scenes in the former Soviet Bloc, dating from about 1955 to 1990.