Moscow Monumental (eBook)

Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

Katherine Zubovich (Autor)

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2020
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20529-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. Moscow Monumental explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital.Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Katherine Zubovich examines the decisions and actions of Soviet elites-from top leaders to master architects-and describes the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project. She shows how the Stalin-era quest for monumentalism was rooted in the Soviet Union's engagement with Western trends in architecture and planning, and how the skyscrapers required the creation of a vast and complex infrastructure. As laborers flooded into the city, authorities evicted and rehoused tens of thousands of city residents living on the plots selected for development. When completed in the mid-1950s, these seven ornate neoclassical buildings served as elite apartment complexes, luxury hotels, and ministry and university headquarters.Moscow Monumental tells a story that is both local and broadly transnational, taking readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 70 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Air Conditioning • Alexis Peri • amenity • anatoly • Apartment • architectural drawing • Architecture • Architecture of the United States • Archive • archivist • Bernstein • bolsheviks • Boris Iofan • Building • Building Material • Cathedral of Christ the Saviour • Central Committee • classical architecture • Classicism • collegiality • Communal apartment • Construction • Copyright • dacha • Demobilization • Design Studio • de-Stalinization • dormitory • Eastern Bloc • Eastern Europe • eviction • First five-year plan (Soviet Union) • Garden Ring • Georgy Malenkov • Gosplan • GULAG • Heather DeHaan • Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel • Historicism (art) • Hotel Ukraina • Hotel Ukraine • housing development • Infrastructure • International Style (architecture) • Jean-Louis Cohen • joseph stalin • Katherine Lebow • Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments • Kudrinskaya Square Building • Lavrentiy Beria • Lazar Kaganovich • Le Corbusier • Leningrad Affair • Lenin's Mausoleum • Lev Rudnev • Liberalization • librarian • Lighting • Mayakovskaya (Moscow Metro) • metro station • Michal Murawski • Microdistrict • Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry • Ministry of Foreign Affairs • Modern Architecture • Moscow • Moscow City • Moscow International Business Center • Moscow Metro • Moscow’s Seven Sisters • Moscow State University • Mossovet • movie theater • Murawski • Neoclassical architecture • Neoclassicism • New Palace (Potsdam) • newspaper • Nicole Eaton • Nikita Khrushchev • nkvd • Nowa Huta • politburo • Prefabrication • preservationist • Princeton University Press • Pushkin Museum • Redevelopment • Red Gates Administrative Building • residence • Rockefeller Center • Russia • Russian architecture • Russian History • Russian nationalism • Russian State Archive of Contemporary History • Setback (architecture) • Seven Sisters • Skyscraper • Smolensk • Socialist Realism • Soviet history • Soviet Russia • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Stalinist architecture • Stalinist City Planning • Stalin’s high-rises • State Archive of the Russian Federation • suburb • Technology • The Great Terror • The New York Times • The Palace Complex • Triumph Palace • Unfinished Utopia • Urbanism • urban planning • Vladimir Shchuko • VOKS • Vyacheslav Molotov • Zhdanov
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20529-9 / 0691205299
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20529-8 / 9780691205298