Stalinist City Planning

Professionals, Performance, and Power

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Russia, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Modern, 20th Century
Cover of the book Stalinist City Planning by Heather  DeHaan, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Heather DeHaan ISBN: 9781442665217
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: February 28, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Heather DeHaan
ISBN: 9781442665217
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: February 28, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power.

Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date.

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Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power.

Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date.

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