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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Zubovich, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 70 b/w illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691205298; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704730; 9783110704525; 9783110739121
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691205298?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.