The perception of the architectural and town-planning policy of Italy in the Soviet Union between the two world wars
One of the most popular objects of current interdisciplinary research is the urban environment, cities and urban development. Interpretations of the International Style architecture, including modern Italian architecture, for the USSR of the 1920s and 1930s were the search for identity models for the alienation of old life and the creation of a new aesthetics. Search for a new, “national” style in fascist Italy was built on similar grounds. An interesting phenomenon for study, to which researchers have practically never addressed, is the question of the mutual influence (direct, student-centered or mediated by common trends) of some architectural schools and directions between the two world wars. In the article we tried to actualize the study of the “perception” of architectural styles and town planning of the fascist twenty years in Italy, their perception in the early years of the new Soviet state through the interpretation of architects and publicists. We have stopped on consideration of the general concepts in order to further pass to particular cases of stylistic borrowings and mutual citation.