Led by Architekturzentrum Wien director Dietmar Steiner, the curators traveled around the former Soviet Union over a three-year period in search of their often elusive and quickly decaying subjects. Focusing on the former republics—from Estonia to Belarus, Armenia to Uzbekistan—they interviewed the still-living actors of the time and foraged in bookshops for archive material. They eventually uncovered major Soviet typologies... — online.wsj.com
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socialism? not communism?
union of soviet socialist republics
touché, but that was a misnomer if anything. that was not a socialist system but a (communist) party system. same with people's republic of china. its not really the people's.