Monotown: Urban Dreams, Brutal Imperatives poetry Selected from private collections

Selected from private collections

'One of the great love stories of history

In this meticulously researched account

in a thrilling account that involves KGB interceptions

Both beautiful and profoundly menacing

Monotown: Urban Dreams, Brutal Imperatives poetry Selected from private collectionsMonotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emerged as a distinctive socio political project of urbanisation in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Monotowns took form through the establishment of industrial enterprises strewn across remote parts of the Siberian hinterland, around which cities had to be built to provide labour. This model entailed the