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Soviet Playgrounds: Playful Landscapes of the Former USSR by David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka graphic novel new Muslim artists on theThrough five chapters containing more than 150 photographs, the book documents the mass produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist era housing estates, such as rocket slides and earth shaped climbers, spaceships and animal themed ladders, cosmic roundabouts and bizarre objects that would probably raise safety concerns nowadays. From Riga to Dushanbe and all the way from Kyiv to Vladivostok, children dreamt of