Retrograd

An online project exploring the legacy and transformation of socialism through the lens of architecture, design and material/pop culture, based @UCLSSEES.

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

Part #6 on #RETROGRAD: Memories from the House of Culture in a #Soviet village. The Project #Talking #Buildings from Soviet #Chechnya follows an almost vanished path through the remnants of Chechnya’s collective industries https://t.co/6qGEAH0aUq @EU_Russia_CSF

[The Siberian Times @siberian_times]

Flair to avoid snow glare - dazzling eye fashion from 2,000 years ago until today. Siberian goggles among the world’s earliest eyewear to prevent winter blindness from the sun’s piercing reflection https://t.co/aIEiWVB9Bn

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

A #feminist manifesto sung by a 19-year-old #Kyrgyz student has rekindled debates over women’s rights in #Kyrgyzstan https://t.co/6kwkNfqm3h

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

The “National Mothers” of #Socialism: From Mother Albania to the Mother of Georgia https://t.co/rtCGeIIyZJ via @balkanist

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

Vostok-2018: #Russia launches biggest post-Soviet war games – in pictures https://t.co/4J2VdD0vZ0

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

The #women architects who built #Socialist #Yugoslavia https://t.co/vBhvejAmly

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

'Wait, there’s another Russia? White Russia?' Belarusians groan at hearing this, but a #campaign in #Minsk is exposing stereotypes and ignorance about the country, one poster at a time. #WTFISBELARUS #Belarus More info here: https://t.co/gXkH8lqZFD

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

'In embracing post-socialist aesthetics, Westerners co-opt the imagery of the collapse of #socialism for their own epistemic destabilization...' #postsocialism goes #west https://t.co/tIj4wguJz0

[Zupagrafika @ZUPAGRAFIKA]

Our illustrated poster Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier available exclusively at @galerie318 (at Unité d'Habitation, Marseille)
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© ZUPAGRAFIKA pour Kolektiv 318, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille | © F.L.C. | ADAGP, Paris, 2017

Offset print. 100 x 70 cm.

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

How to write about #Belarus? 10 Tips for Western #journalists. Via @34magnet https://t.co/SPXhkh3nG4

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

#Berlin Is Out, #Tbilisi Is In: #Georgia's Capital Is This Year's Most Exciting City. https://t.co/irfnOUiaco

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

Meanwhile in #Russia: #Kalashnikov Unveils Electric Car Seeking to Dethrone #Tesla. Really? https://t.co/vDIwrG12xF

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

The #Nenets are one of the #indigenous and #nomadic nations in #Russia's #Arctic north. They call themselves "children of deer", a name that finds its roots in the Nenets' traditional occupation: #reindeer #breeding. https://t.co/uUQoLMBcYg

[The Eurasian Knot (@euraknot.bsky.social) @euraknot]

Lenin like you've never seen him before. Even convenient factory smoke to cover his wee-wee.

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

'How to trip in the #SovietUnion?' The #USSR had its very own #hippie #movement, seekers who couldn’t have been less concerned by the restrictions and commands of their time. Via @DeepBaltic #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania https://t.co/vLqieDvKQH

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

yeah, why not? #Almaty #Kazakhstan https://t.co/CK14PI4TTB

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

Post-Soviet visual. Parking in front of "Zoloto" (Gold) restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2014

[Spomenik Database @SpomenikDatabse]

An interesting 1980s #retro color postcard I recently came across showing the "Monument to the Uprising" at Petrova Gora mountain, #Croatia. Created by Vojin Bakić in 1981, the site today sits in ruins. @MuzejYU @Retro_Grad @C20Society @modernistmag

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

'The Architecture of Democracy' in #Moscow, 2 June 2018, 16:30-18:30 https://t.co/SoIMK7fHze

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

These Photo Tiles Transform Walls Into #Soviet #Apartment Blocks. the #Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika printed photos of Soviet-era apartment windows onto tiles. https://t.co/KIb5u97sU2

[Retrograd @Retro_Grad]

Photographer Konstantin Vichrov portrays #Russian suburbs in the style of #BladeRunner https://t.co/EAnkgesHLN