Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital, Paperback - Hilton Judin

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DescriptionMoscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period...

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