Russian revolution : demolition of paradise

Charley, Jonathan (2018) Russian revolution : demolition of paradise. Urban Realm, 2018 (April). pp. 87-95. ISSN 2044-7345

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Abstract

In September 2017 Chris Leslie, award winning documentary photographer and film maker and Jonathan Charley, writer and teacher, went to Moscow for the Guardian to interview residents in the frontline of one of the biggest reconstruction programmes of modern times, the demolition of over four thousand apartment blocks that will affect the lives of nearly two million people. This essay looks at the historical context of what has become a highly controversial policy.