IDEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF NEOHISTORICAL TRENDS IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF POSTCOMMUNIST CIRCUMFERENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THEIR STYLISTIC IDENTIFICATION

The aim of the article is to reveal the ideological features that where characteristic of post-communist circumference, which formed the basis of the architectural worldview of the period 1990-2010; to determine the correctness of the term "postmodernism" to the buildings created at this time and the feasibility of its alternative. The specific character of the architecture of post-communist circumference, marked by the tendency to historicism and retrospectivism. The author cites significant differences between such architecture and traditional Western postmodernism. Chief among them is the utopia of feudalism as an ideal past, which was perceived by post-communist circles as an obligatory ideological dogma. This was significantly different from Western postmodernism, which proclaimed the end of any ideology and monopoly of a single correct doctrine. In addition, the article reveals the complicated process of switching the relationship between modern values from architectural modernism to the architecture of historicism. This paradoxical phenomenon of post-communist culture is due to the fact that the socialist system itself built within the Soviet "camp" a feudal and hierarchical content, which was materialized in the architectural forms of modernism, which, in its time, emerged as a style of democratic and socially responsible society. Thus, the protest against modernism in post-communist societies and the shift to historicism was in fact based on a desire for a modern society that was paradoxically associated with feudal one.