CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed

Catalogue note

Frédéric Chaubin's photographic survey of 90 late-Soviet buildings across 14 former Soviet republics, documenting an under-recorded burst of architectural experimentation from roughly 1970 to 1990.

Credit / attribution note: Photographs and text by Frédéric Chaubin. The photographed imprint credits editorial coordination to Simone Philippi; design to Sense/Net Art Direction, Andy Disl and Birgit Eichwede; production coordination to Thomas Grell; English translation to Penne Crawford; German translation to Helmut Roß. Printed in Germany. These production credits are preserved without creating unsupported role relationships beyond the principal author/photographer.

Edition / bibliographic note: Same ISBN as the 2011 original TASCHEN XL edition. The supplied physical copy states © 2012 TASCHEN GmbH, establishing it as a later 2012 printing/impression of that edition. No printing number is stated, so the exact impression number is unknown.

Condition note: Pictorial boards show notable edge and corner wear, including lower-left corner damage, rubbing/scuffing, a visible mark/abrasion on the front right margin and surface wear to the rear; binding appears coherent and the photographed interior imprint page is clean and legible.

Preserved discrepancies / uncertainties: Publisher/current TASCHEN record gives 312 pages, which is physically corroborated by the supplied page numbered 312. Several library and bookseller records for the 2011 ISBN report 308 pages; TMR retains that bibliographic discrepancy but uses the physically verified 312-page extent for this copy.

Research status: Exact ISBN, publisher, format, 2011 original-edition history, 2012 physical imprint, 312-page extent and later re-editions independently checked in August 2026.