Comparing the socialist rural architecture of the Baltic States: the past and the future of the administrative-cultural centres of collective farms.
Journal: SHS Web of Conferences
Year: 2019

Collectivisation of agriculture in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was a drastic change that shaped rural built landscapes of the Baltic countries for five decades. Although Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been independent states, and collective farming has been abolished for almost thirty years now, the physical legacy of collective farms still exists. This paper examines what are the present processes in terms of preservation and valorisation of collective farm architectural heritage in the B