Monuments for posterity : self-commemoration and the Stalinist culture of time

Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building prog...

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Main Author:	Kalashnikov, Antony
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca Cornell University Press 2023
Edition:	1
Subjects:	ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments Buildings cultural history of Stalinism Europe HISTORY HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Landmarks & Monuments Memorialization > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) memory of Stalinism monumentalism Monuments > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union Russia & the Former Soviet Union Russian & Former Soviet Union Socialist realism and architecture Socialist realism and architecture > Russia (Federation) Socialist realism in art SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY Soviet and Russian nationalism Soviet architecture Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953 Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.GBC325474 Stalin and temporality Stalinist monuments World POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY Stalin and temporality Soviet and Russian nationalism SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY Stalinist monuments monumentalism Soviet architecture cultural history of Stalinism memory of Stalinism HISTORY
ISBN:	1501768638, 9781501768637, 1501768646, 9781501768644, 1501768654, 9781501768651, 1501774271, 9781501774270
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