Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley russian cuisine Moscow to post-Revolution Kiev

Moscow to post-Revolution Kiev

A rumour spreads through Dagestan’s capital city

As we submerge into the metros

to explore society’s open secrets

from seizing superyachts and freezing central bank reserves to targeting oligarchs and elites

Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings by Owen Hatherley russian cuisine Moscow to post-Revolution KievDuring the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high rise and vast housing estates an emphatic declaration of a non capitalist idea. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post Revolution Kiev, the