Monuments for Posterity : : Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time /

Monuments for Posterity : : Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time / / Antony Kalashnikov.

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Kalashnikov, Antony,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 15 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Beyond Totalitarian Monuments
  • 1. Stalinist Monuments in Context
  • 2. Historicist Aesthetics: Developing an Enduring Architecture
  • 3. Synthetic Composition: Anticipating Posterity’s Gaze
  • 4. The (Un)contested Politics of Stalinist Monument Building
  • 5. The Cultural Foundations of Stalinist Monument Building
  • 6. Self-Commemoration and the Interwar Culture of Time
  • Epilogue: Posterity’s Monuments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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