SOVIET METRO STATIONS

Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and1980s, it is easy to see why. Rath er than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artworka fusion of sculp ture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and constructivist ideas and infused them with the notion that communism would mean a communal luxury for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia.