Unfinished Utopia : : Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 / / Katherine A. Lebow.
Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast t...
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Lebow, Katherine A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Unfinished Utopia : Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 / Katherine A. Lebow. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013] ©2016 1 online resource (256 p.) : 15 halftones, 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Unplanned City -- 2. New Men -- 3. The Poor Worker Breaks His Legs -- 4. Women of Steel -- 5. The Enlightenment of Kasza -- 6. Spaces of Solidarity, 1956-89 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta's construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow explores their various encounters with the ideology and practice of Stalinist mobilization by seeking out their voices in memoirs, oral history interviews, and archival records, juxtaposing these against both the official and unofficial transcripts of Stalinism. Far from the gray and regimented landscape we imagine Stalinism to have been, the fledgling city was a colorful and anarchic place where the formerly disenfranchised (peasants, youth, women) hastened to assert their leading role in "building socialism"-but rarely in ways that authorities had anticipated. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Communism and culture History Poland Kraków. Communism and culture Poland Kraków History. Communism and culture Poland Kraków History. Work-life balance History 20th century Poland Kraków. Work-life balance Poland Kraków History 20th century. Work-life balance Poland Kraków History 20th century. History. Soviet & East European History. Urban Studies. HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110667493 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110665871 print 9780801451249 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801468865 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801468865 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801468865/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Unplanned City -- 2. New Men -- 3. The Poor Worker Breaks His Legs -- 4. Women of Steel -- 5. The Enlightenment of Kasza -- 6. Spaces of Solidarity, 1956-89 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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