
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley In The Post-Soviet Space
by Owen Hatherley
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Publication date
- November 13, 2018
In this Eurasian post-Soviet space, we try to find the continuities with Communism – if there are any – and the remnants of revolutions both distant and recent. Instead of a wistful journey through ruins, this intends to be an engaged travelogue, a subjective, personal Marxist Humanist guidebook to somewhere that actually exists, but which is constantly haunted by what it didn’t become, whether a real Communist utopia or a successful or fair capitalism.
In the course of this transcontinental account of what used to be the Soviet Union and is now a patchwork of EU democracies, neoliberal dictatorships and Soviet nostalgic enclaves (often found in the same countries) we might just find the outlines of a way of building cities that is a powerful alternative, both in the past and present.