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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — Buildings That Remember
Chapter 3: — The Thaw and the Turn Toward the Everyday
Chapter 4: — Growth on Paper, Pressure in Real Life
Chapter 5: — When a Style Becomes an Order
Chapter 6: — The Quiet Regional Voices of Ukraine
Chapter 7: — The Postmodern Paradox of Perestroika
Chapter 8: — Looking Again, With Patience
Description
This narration explores Soviet architecture in Ukraine as more than a background for daily life. It treats buildings as historical evidence—sometimes painful, sometimes impressive, often contradictory—showing how political shifts, economic reforms, and cultural pressures shaped the streets and skylines of entire cities.
Across seven chapters, we move from postwar modernism and the housing push of the “Thaw,” into the Brezhnev era’s changing priorities, the rise of an official, state-driven “brutalism,” the quieter emergence of regional and unofficial Ukrainian schools, and finally the strange, contested arrival of Soviet postmodernism during perestroika. The closing invites listeners to observe their own cities with more care and curiosity.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who want a calm, human-paced introduction to Soviet-era architecture in Ukraine—without needing a technical background.
- Anyone interested in how politics and economics quietly shape everyday spaces, from housing blocks to government buildings.
- Students and curious travelers looking for a simple framework to recognize modernism, brutalism, and postmodernism in real streets and neighborhoods.