Photo Essay: Socialist Ideals in Early Soviet Architecture
In Russian the word “soviet” means 1) council, assembly, board; 2) advice, recommendation, suggestion; 3) harmony, concord. As a term, it refers to a specific kind of political organization, introduced after the October Revolution of 1917, that radically transformed political power: “Councils of the workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ representatives”, also known as “soviets”. Soviets were envisaged...