Frédéric Chaubin. CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

The gutter of this small format ruins a lot of the images. Shame.

This is a fantastic book with startling images of Soviet era architecture. The buildings are impressive and oppressive in equal measure and the scale of the designs oozes confidence from a Stalinist age when Russia and its satellite states were an all conquering and mighty world power. The magnitude of some of the structures is truly breath-taking and it is incredible that so much concrete could have been poured into one single monolithic slab of grey dominance.My only quibble is that I had originally seen this book in an art shop as a large coffee table edition which was expensivce so, being the cheapskate that I am, I looked on line and found it for less than half the price. This edition is., of course, only half the size of a coffee table edition. The impages are, of course, more spectacular in the large scale form but this handy pocket sized edition captures the structures just as well and is easier on the pocket.

Really interesting book about an unusual subject, also great value at the smaller size.

It is very visually pleasing, I like neo brutalist buildings and have always been fascinated about the history that goes along with the buildings themselves

Original copy I saw was A4 this is A5

Fantastically unusual book, every interesting coffee table should have one

this was a gift