Soviet Asia by Robert Conte and Stefano Perego Chicago and was renowned in Russia

and was renowned in Russia for her wit and powers of observation

Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories

Sylvain Tesson shares with us an extraordinary experience

post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism

each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling

Soviet Asia by Robert Conte and Stefano Perego Chicago and was renowned in RussiaSoviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual