Moscow Monumental : : Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital /

Moscow Monumental : : Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital / / Katherine Zubovich.

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 St...

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Zubovich, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 70 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Red Moscow
  • 2. The Palace
  • 3. The War
  • 4. Moscow of the Plan
  • 5. Moscow of the Shadows
  • 6. The Vysotniki
  • 7. The View from the Top
  • 8. De-Stalinization and the Battle against “Excess”
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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