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Architecture And Ideology In Eastern Europe During The Stalin Era: An Aspect Of Cold War History
Author: Aman, Anders
American History Foundation Series; Hardback; Book; 253 Illustrations, Bibliography, Indexes
296 pages
Published: February 1993
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262011301

Since 1978, Anders Aman has been researching, photographing, and documenting the architectural style known as Socialist Realism. In the midst of the current statue toppling, this book records in over 200 illustrations the government-planned buildings, cities, parks, and monuments from the Stalinist postwar period in Eastern Europe, providing a valuable record and analysis of the relation between architecture and the state in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and former East Germany.Very little has been written on architecture and politics during the Cold War periodfor any country, and next to nothing is known about the architecture, or about state policies reflected in the architecture, of Eastern Europe. Aman not only illuminates these issues but also revealsRecords the government-planned buildings, cities, parks and monuments of the Stalinist post-war period in Eastern Europe and provides an analysis of the relationship between architecture and the State in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and former East Germany.


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