The three epochs of soviet architecture In central asia
Аннотация
While the European colonial powers in the second half of the 19th century expanded their dominance in Africa and Asia, Russian expansionist policy was focused on the Caucasus and Central Asia. This tendency continued even after the formation of the Soviet Union. Yet, the new communist model of society called for an even greater concentration of power in Moscow than before the Bolshevik revolution. Moscow had control over the most remote regions of the empire. This also endangered the identity of Central Asian architecture which over the centuries was shaped under Persian influence. Fashion trends in architecture coming from the north were stronger than the influence of Islamic architecture coming from the south. This was reflected in the spread of the Russian architectural avant-garde in Central Asia which prevailed until 1932. It was then replaced by Stalinist neoclassicism and, twenty-five years later, by the second wave of modern architecture related to the Khrushchev era which then passed into postmodernism in the mid-1980s. All the key tasks for the regions were set from the center, whether from the radical transformation of the peasant into an industrial society or the
construction of Stalinist residential palaces for the elite, and later, toward mass uniform housing construction.On the other hand, it was in Central Asian Tashkent that typical housebuilding was linked with national design traditions.