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Brutal Bloc Postcards - Soviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover)
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Brutal Bloc Postcards - Soviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 550
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A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former
Eastern Bloc - sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they depict
the social and architectural values of the period. Brutal concrete
hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic worker statues - this collection
of Soviet era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of
the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. They are
interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, that
both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images.
In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet
empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here
publicise the bright future of communism: social housing blocks,
Palaces of Culture and monuments to Comradeship. Dating from the
1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight
into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a
window through which we can examine cars, people, and of course,
buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, intended
to show the world what living in communism looked like. Instead,
this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages:
outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the
flowerbed reads `Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union';
in Novopolotsk, art school pupils paint plein air, their subject is
a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students
stroll past a five metre tall concrete hammer and sickle.
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