Slog - Comments on Soviet Science Fiction http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/soviet_science_fiction This lovely building is Tblisi: And this one is in Yalta: The Rose Revolution might have might have met its end, but not the heroic concrete of late Soviet architecture.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:13:08 -0800 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:01:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Cool pics!

But, are they as fun on the inside as they are on the outside? Or are they dank concrete bunkers inside?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/soviet_science_fiction#c840808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/soviet_science_fiction#c840808 Architecture Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:28:22 -0800 Comment by brappy What's even cooler is the book The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932 by Richard Pare. Some fascinating buildings, and a lot of the architects were purged in the late 1930s.

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And I want all those victims off my beach!

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The second one...just...yuk.

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