Eastern Blocks by Zupagrafika is a photographic journey through the cityscapes of the former Eastern Bloc, inviting readers to explore the districts and peripheries that became a playground for mass housing development after WW2, including objects like Soviet 'flying saucers', houses 'on chicken legs' or hammer-shaped tower blocks.Showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of Moscow, (East) Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg, the book contains over 100 photographs taken by Zupagrafika throughout the last decade as a reference archive for their illustrated kits and books, with special contributions by local photographers. Divided into 6 chapters, Eastern Blocks includes a foreword by writer and journalist Christopher Beanland, orientative maps, index of architects and informative texts on the featured cities and constructions.

Eastern Blocks by Zupagrafika is a photographic journey through the cityscapes of the former Eastern Bloc, inviting readers to explore the districts and peripheries that became a playground for mass housing development after WW2, including objects like Soviet 'flying saucers', houses 'on chicken legs' or hammer-shaped tower blocks.Showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of Moscow, (East) Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg, the book contains over 100 photographs taken by Zupagrafika throughout the last decade as a reference archive for their illustrated kits and books, with special contributions by local photographers. Divided into 6 chapters, Eastern Blocks includes a foreword by writer and journalist Christopher Beanland, orientative maps, index of architects and informative texts on the featured cities and constructions.

Eastern Blocks by Zupagrafika is a photographic journey through the cityscapes the former Eastern Bloc, inviting readers to explore the districts and peripheries that became a playground for mass housing development after WW2, including objects like Soviet ‘flying saucers’, houses ‘on chicken legs’ or hammer-shaped tower blocks. Showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of Moscow, (East) Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg, the book contains over 100 photographs taken by Zupagrafika throughout the last decade as a reference archive for their illustrated kits and books, with special contributions by local photographers. Divided into 6 chapters, Eastern Blocks includes a foreword by writer and journalist Christopher Beanland, orientative maps, index of architects and informative texts on the featured cities and constructions.

The title Eastern Block Stories features a dozen of articles and over 60 unique hand-picked images about mass housing estates in former communist states. This book aims to address the blind spots to take a closer look at the major challenges for post-socialist housing estates today and imagine what could be their future. Besides stories from Georgia, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany unique photographic material which covers cases from more than ten countries is included. The major take of this book is to unveil the diversity of the Eastern blocks alive and the richness of their urban context besides a stigmatizing and alienating gaze.

Улицы в небе, сборные панельные жилые комплексы, летающие тарелки из необработанного бетона, многоэтажные дома в форме кукурузных початков, Это некоторые из построек, которые изменили городские пейзажи Восточной и Центральной Европы после Второй мировой войны. Эта игривая и увлекательная книга позволяет читателям исследовать и узнавать о бруталистской и модернистской архитектуре, возведенной в бывшем Восточном блоке и бывшей Югославии, и построить некоторые из их самых интригующих зданий, от огромных жилых комплексов в Москве до суровых горизонтов Тбилиси. Брутальный Восток, том. II включает главы с фотографиями и текстами, дающими ценную информацию о представленных зданиях и их истории, а также предисловие Александра Острогорского. Книга содержит девять предварительно вырезанных и сложенных моделей, которые можно распрессовать и собрать с помощью простых инструкций. Этот том в твердом переплете является долгожданным продолжением книги Zupagrafika «Brutal East» 2017 года. Содержит 9 распрессованных картонных моделей для сборки: Москва > 'Дом на куриных ножках'Тбилиси > Жилой комплекс «Скай-Бридж»Киев > Отель СалютСкопье > Студенческий Дом «Гоче Делчев»Берлин > Дом статистикиБудапешт > Жилой комплекс ГаванаМинск > Жилой комплекс «Кукуруза»Домбай > Отель АманаузБузлуджа > Дом-памятник Болгарской коммунистической партииStreets in the sky, prefab panel housing estates, raw concrete flying saucers, corn cob-shaped tower blocks, these are some of the constructions that recast Eastern and Central European urban landscapes after WWII.This playful and engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist and modernist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.Brutal East vol. II includes chapters with photographs and texts providing a valuable insight into the featured buildings and their history, as well as a foreword by Alexander Ostrogorsky. The book contains nine pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble with easy-to-follow instructions. This hardcover volume is the long-awaited follow-up to Zupagrafika's 2017 Brutal East.Contains 9 press-out cardboard models to assemble: Moscow > 'The House on Chicken Legs'Tbilisi > 'Sky-Bridge' Housing EstateKyiv > Hotel SaluteSkopje > Studentski Dom 'Goce Delčev'Berlin > Haus der StatistikBudapest > Havanna Housing EstateMinsk > 'Kukuruza' Housing ComplexDombay > Hotel AmanauzBuzludzha > The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party

Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic worker statues – this collection of Soviet era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. They are interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, that both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images. In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here publicise the bright future of communism: social housing blocks, Palaces of Culture and monuments to Comradeship. Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a window through which we can examine cars, people, and of course, buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, intended to show the world what living in communism looked like. Instead, this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages: outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the flowerbed reads ‘Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’; in Novopolotsk, art school pupils paint plein air, their subject is a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students stroll past a five metre tall concrete hammer and sickle.

Улицы в небе, сборные панельные жилые комплексы, летающие тарелки из необработанного бетона, многоэтажные дома в форме кукурузных початков, Это некоторые из построек, которые изменили городские пейзажи Восточной и Центральной Европы после Второй мировой войны.Эта игривая и увлекательная книга позволяет читателям исследовать и узнавать о бруталистской и модернистской архитектуре, возведенной в бывшем Восточном блоке и бывшей Югославии, и построить некоторые из их самых интригующих зданий, от огромных жилых комплексов в Москве до суровых горизонтов Тбилиси.Брутальный Восток, том. II включает главы с фотографиями и текстами, дающими ценную информацию о представленных зданиях и их истории, а также предисловие Александра Острогорского. Книга содержит девять предварительно вырезанных и сложенных моделей, которые можно распрессовать и собрать с помощью простых инструкций. Этот том в твердом переплете является долгожданным продолжением книги Zupagrafika «Brutal East» 2017 года.Содержит 9 распрессованных картонных моделей для сборки:Москва > 'Дом на куриных ножках'Тбилиси > Жилой комплекс «Скай-Бридж»Киев > Отель СалютСкопье > Студенческий Дом «Гоче Делчев»Берлин > Дом статистикиБудапешт > Жилой комплекс ГаванаМинск > Жилой комплекс «Кукуруза»Домбай > Отель АманаузБузлуджа > Дом-памятник Болгарской коммунистической партииStreets in the sky, prefab panel housing estates, raw concrete flying saucers, corn cob-shaped tower blocks, these are some of the constructions that recast Eastern and Central European urban landscapes after WWII.This playful and engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist and modernist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.Brutal East vol. II includes chapters with photographs and texts providing a valuable insight into the featured buildings and their history, as well as a foreword by Alexander Ostrogorsky. The book contains nine pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble with easy-to-follow instructions. This hardcover volume is the long-awaited follow-up to Zupagrafika's 2017 Brutal East.Contains 9 press-out cardboard models to assemble:Moscow > 'The House on Chicken Legs'Tbilisi > 'Sky-Bridge' Housing EstateKyiv > Hotel SaluteSkopje > Studentski Dom 'Goce Delčev'Berlin > Haus der StatistikBudapest > Havanna Housing EstateMinsk > 'Kukuruza' Housing ComplexDombay > Hotel AmanauzBuzludzha > The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party

Through nine chapters with over 130 photographs taken by Russian photographer Alexander Veryovkin, Monotowns by Zupagrafika captures the post-industrial landscapes and Soviet-era architecture of the monogorods extending from the Arctic Circle to the Russian Far East, such as Vorkuta, Norilsk, Mirny, Kirovsk, Tolyatti, Cherepovets, Magnitogorsk, Monchegorsk and Nikel, and the daily lives of their inhabitants. Includes informative texts providing a valuable insight into the urban development of the featured cities and a foreword by the architectural critic Konstantin Budarin.

There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.

The proposed manual is devoted to modern historical processes in the Eastern countries. It examines a variety of questions about modern historical processes of the countries of the East during a period of integration into global economic and political system and globalization as a whole. The key events of historical processes in the Eastern countires are considered. It is designed for bachelors and masters with major in "Oriental Studies".

The proposed manual is devoted to modern historical processes in the Eastern countries. It examines a variety of questions about modern historical processes of the countries of the East during a period of integration into global economic and political system and globalization as a whole. The key events of historical processes in the Eastern countires are considered. It is designed for bachelors and masters with major in "Oriental Studies".

Mesmerising short stories by this neglected 20th century master. Far Eastern Tales is a collection of short stories born of Maugham's experiences in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle, or a marriage shattered by a past indiscretion, they all reveal Maugham at his best - sometimes caustic, sometimes gently comic, but always the shrewd and human judge of character and soul.

Треклист:1 Introduction 1:32, 2 Young Alexander 1:36, 3 Titans 3:59, 4 The Drums Of Gaugamela 5:20, 5 One Morning At Pella 2:11, 6 Roxane's Dance 3:25, 7 Eastern Path 2:58, 8 Gardens Of Delight 5:24, 9 Roxane's Veil 4:40, 10 Bagoas Dance 2:29, 11 The Charge 1:41, 12 Preparation 1:42, 13 Across The Mountains 4:12, 14 Chant 1:38, 15 Immortality 3:18, 16 Dream Of Babylon 2:41, 17 Eternal Alexander 4:37, 18 Tender Memories 2:59

Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces―all were constructed using a composite aesthetic. Influenced by Persian and Islamic architecture, pattern and mosaic motifs articulated a connection with Central Asia. Gray concrete slabs were juxtaposed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved forms: the brutal designs normally associated with Soviet-era architecture were reconstructed with Eastern characteristics. Many of the buildings shown in Soviet Asia are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as, despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition. The publication includes two contextual essays by Alessandro De Magistris and Marco Buttino.

Revised edition of the groundbreaking New Age book that seamlessly merges Western psychology and science with spirituality, creating a compelling interpretation of the Eastern chakra system and its relevance for Westerners today. In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment. Arranged schematically, the book uses the inherent structure of the chakra system as a map upon which to chart our Western understanding of individual development. Each chapter focuses on a single chakra, starting with a description of its characteristics and then exploring its particular childhood developmental patterns, traumas and abuses, and how to heal and maintain balance.

Revised edition of the groundbreaking New Age book that seamlessly merges Western psychology and science with spirituality, creating a compelling interpretation of the Eastern chakra system and its relevance for Westerners today. In Eastern Body, Western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment. Arranged schematically, the book uses the inherent structure of the chakra system as a map upon which to chart our Western understanding of individual development. Each chapter focuses on a single chakra, starting with a description of its characteristics and then exploring its particular childhood developmental patterns, traumas and abuses, and how to heal and maintain balance.