Aglaya Glebova

Bio

Aglaya Glebova is Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin, came out with Yale University Press in 2023, and was recently awarded the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. Glebova is now at work on a project that examines ideas of economy, energy, and exhaustion in Soviet art and architecture.

Contributions

“Down with the Skyscrapers of Historical Backwardness,” or the Paradoxes of the Disurbanist Revolution

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What architectural and spatial shape should a socialist society take? This was a question of heated debate in post-revolutionary Russia, all the more so in the late 1920s and early 1930s, once the survival of the Bolshevik state seemed assured and the focus could turn to constructing its infrastructures. This essay examines one short-lived but significant episode in the history of Soviet architecture and urban planning: the disurbanist philosophy of “new resettlement,” formulated in 1929 by the...

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