Letter to the editor: UB Faculty Statement on Police Action on Campus ubspectrum.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ubspectrum.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2021 Book Prize themoscowtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from themoscowtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CONTRARY to the popular image in the West of a dull, grey and brutal USSR, in Moscow Monumental Katherine Zubovich reveals how the general plan for the city in the 1930s aimed to improve standards of living, deal with the housing crisis, provide new amenities to Muscovites and beautify a city of “narrow and curving streets with dozens of lanes and dead ends.”
The architecture of Moscow and my one criticism of the book is that it’s not well served by the small and grainy photos illustrating the text goes beyond the typical tourist pictures of Red Square and onion domes. Changing styles mirrored the growth and development of a new nation.
What We Are Reading Today: Moscow Monumental by Katherine Zubovich arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.