“Who Cares about the Purges? I’m Here for the Rest of the ‘30s”: The Architects of Russia’s New “Grand Style”
In late August, Russian state media announced that architects were developing a Russian “grand style” that would strengthen the nation. [Translator’s note: in Russian, the phrase “grand style” (bol’shoi stil’) is most often associated with architecture built under Louis XIV and Stalin.] News simultaneously broke about plans to erect “lighthouses of the Russian world” in … “Who Cares about the Purges? I’m Here for the Rest of the ‘30s”: The Architects of Russia’s New “Grand Style”