I. INTRODUCTION: AESTHETIZATION OF POWER THROUGH MANIFESTATIONS OF URBAN MONUMENTALIZM The direct relationship between power and architecture

The paper aims to explore the relationships between political ideology and spatial organization. Along this purpose, the changes in the politics and associated occurrences both in meanings of built forms and spaces are of prime interest. Therefore, the paper addresses the issue of aestheticisation of power through architecture with specific reference to the case of Moscow and the shift that occurred from the 1917 revolution to 1935 plan. It elucidates the process of political change and the series of events that prepared this transformation to be able to analyze how the cultural program achieved its goals of transforming the whole society and its perception about the political meanings through means of urban monumentalizm. For this aim, starting with the idiosyncrasies of Russian art and architecture in Moscow, the plausible roots of aesthetics of powers inherent in the traditional arts of Russia are investigated. Then, the philosophy behind the October Revolution is reviewed from the perspective of the relation between space and politics. Following an overview of its impacts on both architecture and urbanism, the paper argues on the possibility of a hidden globalist agenda behind post-revolution artistic policies that might have paved the foundations of the radical shift that occurred in 1930s. Under the light cast by these discussions, it analyzes the urban characteristics of 1935 Moscow Plan and architectural characteristics of the Palace of Soviets are put forward.