The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities by David Leupold - 9781032982861

The Death and Life of Southern Soviet CitiesUrban Futures and their Afterlives\nAuthor(s): David Leupold\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032982861, 978-1032982861\nSynopsis\nThe Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities discussed on New Books Network podcast with Ernest Lee\n\nWhat does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question what is left of the socialist city? this book aims not only to trace the material and mnemonic remains of the socialist city, but to show how the Soviet discourse of the city at times engendered radical ideas that challenged the narrow confines of state socialism itself.\n\nThese ideas are, for instance, the efforts of Esperanto-speaking internationalists from Czechoslovakia to build the internationalist city from below in the Central Asian steppe, the quest of Armenian Futurists to root th.