The Relationship Between Cultural Space and Power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Abstract

Russia experienced a very turbulent period in the Tsarist Period before the Soviet Union, and the traces of the political events and social structures of the period were seen intensely on the structures serving the society as well as on the society. During the Tsarist period before the establishment of the Soviet Union, Feudal rule was experienced, then the socialist system was adopted in the country, and housing was one of the biggest problems of the people in both periods. In this article, it is examined how different policies implemented in the Tsarist Period and the Soviet Union affected the architecture and how they changed according to the periods. Socialism, which began to be implemented with the collapse of the Absolute Monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Union, underwent different political processes during the Soviet Union Period and was exposed to various changes. The housing and cultural structures of the country, which experienced different leadership and regime processes, and the leadership ideology reflected in the structures were investigated in the cultural dimension. The cultural structures of the Lenin and Stalin periods were selected starting from the Tsarist Period. The impact of leaders on their housing and cultural spaces in line with spatial formation and policy was tried to be measured.