Arts & Culture

Based on extensive research and drawing on archives that were until recently inaccessible, Kristina Krasnyanskaya and Alexander Semenov document seven decades of interior design in the Soviet Union.

Featuring over 150 kiosks, this photobook provides previously unseen documentation of the remaining modernist booths that witnessed the socio-political transformation of Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century

Through five chapters containing more than 150 photographs, the book documents the mass-produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist-era housing estates.

Brutal East is a kit of illustrated cut-out paper models, celebrating the post-war architecture of central and eastern Europe, that allows you to playfully explore and reconstruct some of the most controversial edifices erected behind the Iron Curtain.

This engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.

This book presents the results of in-depth research and extensive travels in former Soviet space. Its prime focus is the impact of space exploration on everyday life in its pioneering age between the late 1950s and the 1980s.

An inspiring and beautifully produced series of photo-portraits of LGBTQ Russians living in an increasingly homophobic Russia.

A detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the Marc Chagall, covering his cultural and historical importance and a concise biography with approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Off Nevsky Prospect plunges the reader into the world of Leningrad's dissident artists under Gorbachev.

This book documents over 45 sanatoriums and their unconventional treatments. From Armenia to Uzbekistan, it represents the most comprehensive survey to date of this fascinating and previously overlooked Soviet institution.

An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape

Soviet Asia explores Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR.