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The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Owen Hatherley children Vasco’s a steamboatThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a place that really existed, but it is long dead. By now, the word Soviet should be as meaningless as Hapsburg. Yet it endures, as in the wave of de communisation in Ukraine or the strange idea that the capitalist government in Russia is Communist. But does the Soviet experience have anything to teach us today, or was it just an enormous cul de sac, a nuclear armed reincarnation of the Russian Empire? This