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

"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

About the author

Katherine Zubovich is assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Twitter @kzubovich

Summary

"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Additional text

"Zubovich gives us what the archives (and page limits) allow: a rich and thoughtful story of the ambition and contradiction that characterized the Soviet effort to create a lived utopia."---Diane P. Koenker, Journal of Modern History

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Zubovich
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780691178905
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17890-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book; Russia, European History, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), City & town planning - architectural aspects, History of Architecture, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Marxism & Communism, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, HISTORY / Russia / General