The Role of I. V. Stalin in the History of Architecture Authors Alexander Rappaport Union of Moscow Architects; Union of Designers of Russia; UMA Internet-magazine “Architector”; International Association of Architecture Critics Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.47-48.1010 Published 2016-05-19 Issue No. 47-48 (2016): elites Section Articles How to Cite The Role of I. V. Stalin in the History of Architecture. (2016). Project Baikal, 13(47-48), 116-119. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.47-48.1010 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: kitch, taste, relativity, opinion, style, totalitarism, mass society Abstract The critique of “constructivism” and implementation of “stalinist empire” style in the USSR is regarded as a general trend in the course of revolutionary shift to modern mass society in the West culture, producing “kitch” as a hybrid of aristocratic and popular taste in urban environment. This turbulent process produces a total relativity of moral and artistic values, tastes and the concepts of style. The idea of truth and beauty becomes conventional. The future of postmodernist kitch is still obscure.