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Между Западом и СССР: русские архитекторы и конъюнктура западноевропейского архитектурного рынка в 1910-1930-е годы на примере работы Бертольда Любеткина
The 1920–1930s were an extremely contradictory time for the USSR, from the point of view of cultural policy in general, and issues of architecture in particular. On one hand, the need to prop- agandize the new world that arose on the ruins of the old empire forced to contrast international and local practice as much as possible. On the other hand, the outflow of qualified personnel and a number of pressing issues in the field of urban planning and architecture forced the recruitment of foreign specialists and the return of potentially useful professionals. Russian architects who had recently emigrated from Russia were also in a difficult situation, which was due to serious competition, problems of social adaptation, and, finally, the severity of the moral choice of the future path. Under those conditions, especially under the influence of the intensified Soviet propaganda in the 1930s, some emigrants seriously considered returning back to Russia. On the example of outstanding English architect Berthold Lubetkin, the essay will be an attempt to understand the specifics of the social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances in which Russian architects and artists worked in Western Europe in the 1920– 1930s.