Drawing on her expertise in urban culture and the politics of memory, Catriona Kelly's talk for YCIE's second annual Y-Conference: SPACES explored:
• What defined "socialist" or "Soviet" spaces and whether recognizable settlement patterns existed across the territory.
• The practical success of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev-era push for spatial homogeneity (including the 1955 Decree on Architectural Excesses and the 1961 secret law on statuary).
• The role of space in the Soviet imaginary versus its ideological significance.

Watch the full presentation: https://youtu.be/dwTHQvFnmtQ

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