соціалістичний реалізм

In this article the author attempted to analyze the ideological constituent of the soviet architecture utopian ideas in the 1930-80s. An ideological background of the ideas development in soviet architecture of the analyzed period is emphasized.

In 1992 an extremely interesting study by professor Umeå University of Sweden, Anders Åman, "Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe during the Stalin era: an aspect of the history of the Cold War" was published. It was a rare and valuable work, which discussed the expansion of the architecture of socialist realism from Moscow to the west in order to establish a communist ideology.