* 2008, Martin Avery, Bobby Orr and Me, (ISBN 9780557036929), page 353Ĭanada won the 1972 Summit Series against the CCCP, just barely, but lost a lot of face, bragging rights, prestige, sense of self, identity, and propaganda points, even though life in the Soviet Union, judging by the big hockey rink in Moscow, was dismal, at best, and a totalitarian police state nightmare, at worst.I wonder if we'll find out who Suvorov really was. * 1992 July 27, Keith Morgan, NATO/Warsaw Pact forces (was Re: Greatest Prez.)'', in soc.history, ''Usenet :.( lb) USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).This puzzle of styles testifies to all the ideological dreams of the period, from the obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of privacy and it also outlines the geography of the USSR, showing how local influences made their exotic twists before bringing the country to its end. Then comes the speaking architecture widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Kiev crematorium), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Kiev institute), a political center watching you like a Big Brother (Kaliningrad House of Soviet). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to its suprematist influence (Promethee). Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba sanatorium), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Tbilisi wedding palace). Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, the holes of the widening net, architects revisited all the chronological periods and styles, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Their diversity announces the end of Soviet Union. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Contrary to the twenties and thirties, no “school” or main trend emerges here. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. In this volume photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what could be considered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture.

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