Soviet Playgrounds: Playful Landscapes of the Former USSR by David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka graphic novel and about belonging and the

and about belonging and the meaning of progress

addressing issues from controversial historical topics to the present military conflict in the East of the country

By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20 million Russians had died

and Sergio Leone

which means it’s got to be built from scratch

Soviet Playgrounds: Playful Landscapes of the Former USSR by David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka graphic novel and about belonging and theThrough five chapters containing more than 150 photographs, the book documents the mass produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist era housing estates, such as rocket slides and earth shaped climbers, spaceships and animal themed ladders, cosmic roundabouts and bizarre objects that would probably raise safety concerns nowadays. From Riga to Dushanbe and all the way from Kyiv to Vladivostok, children dreamt of