Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic russian politics and from there to Europe

and from there to Europe and beyond

sent as a kind of missionary to bring the values of modern Russia to his childhood home town in Central Asia

One day in 1988

Based on groundbreaking research

and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims

Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic russian politics and from there to EuropeThe first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private collections. This is a history of architecture, politics and power. Boris Iofan (1891 1976) made his mark as Stalin's architect, both in the grand projects he achieved, such as the House on the Embankment, a megastructure of 505 homes for the Soviet elite, and