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Stalinist city planning : professionals, performance, and power / Heather D. DeHaan.

Author/creator DeHaan, Heather D., 1974-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Descriptionx, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction : planners, performance, and power -- From Nizhnii to Gorky : setting the stage of socialism -- Visionary planning : confronting socio-material agencies -- From ivory tower to city street : building a new Nizhnii Novgorod, 1928-1935 -- Stalinist representation : iconographic vision, 1935-1938 -- Stalinism as stagecraft : the architecture of performance -- A city that builds itself : the limits of technocracy -- Performing socialism : connecting space to self -- Conclusion : living socialism in the shadow of the political.
Abstract "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."--Dust jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013370955
ISBN9781442645349 (bound)
ISBN1442645342 (bound)

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