The article analyzes the book Saving Stalin’s Imperial City: preservation Restoration in Leningrad, 1930–1950 by S. M. Maddox. The — Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. — XII, 284 p. Since the 1930s the architectural heritage of the former capital of the Russian Empire was actively used for ideological and mobilization purposes: — to fight fascism, to rebuild the city after the blockade, and to create the memory of the Great Patriotic War and the Blockade. The case of preserving monuments as such was first delivered only in Stalin’s time. Before the Revolution, the state did not invest in restoration, and there was no legal framework obliging owners to do so. The work of city defenders on the evacuation and preservation of historic...
The article analyzes the situation of Leningrad in one of the most difficult periods of the Siege, D...
The article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the architecture of “Stalinist Empire style” by the...
The article is dedicated to issues connected with the foundation and functioning of a leading the Ru...
This dissertation is a study of Leningrad during World War II and the period of postwar restoration ...
This dissertation is a study of Leningrad during World War II and the period of postwar restoration ...
Soviet architectural avantgarde from the 1920s30s arouses , since a few years, a new interest in R...
The article deals with the history of Vilnius public spaces during early years of the Soviet occupat...
From a comparative perspective, the article deals with two different attitudes towards two striking ...
The article shows how the publication of previously unknown documents related to the battle for Leni...
Based on a complex of published and archival sources, the article deals with a problem that has not ...
The article analyzes the history, historiography, and commemoration of the 75th Stalin volunteer sep...
The purpose of the article is to detail V. Modzalevskyi’s work concerning protection of Chernihiv mu...
The importance of idealised visions of the past to local identity in twentieth-century St Petersburg...
Looking through the prism of USSR national policy the article analyzes the reconstruction of Stalini...
On August 1, 1990, there was an unprecedented event in the Ukrainian town of Chervonohrad: a crowd g...
The article analyzes the situation of Leningrad in one of the most difficult periods of the Siege, D...
The article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the architecture of “Stalinist Empire style” by the...
The article is dedicated to issues connected with the foundation and functioning of a leading the Ru...
This dissertation is a study of Leningrad during World War II and the period of postwar restoration ...
This dissertation is a study of Leningrad during World War II and the period of postwar restoration ...
Soviet architectural avantgarde from the 1920s30s arouses , since a few years, a new interest in R...
The article deals with the history of Vilnius public spaces during early years of the Soviet occupat...
From a comparative perspective, the article deals with two different attitudes towards two striking ...
The article shows how the publication of previously unknown documents related to the battle for Leni...
Based on a complex of published and archival sources, the article deals with a problem that has not ...
The article analyzes the history, historiography, and commemoration of the 75th Stalin volunteer sep...
The purpose of the article is to detail V. Modzalevskyi’s work concerning protection of Chernihiv mu...
The importance of idealised visions of the past to local identity in twentieth-century St Petersburg...
Looking through the prism of USSR national policy the article analyzes the reconstruction of Stalini...
On August 1, 1990, there was an unprecedented event in the Ukrainian town of Chervonohrad: a crowd g...
The article analyzes the situation of Leningrad in one of the most difficult periods of the Siege, D...
The article is dedicated to the peculiarities of the architecture of “Stalinist Empire style” by the...
The article is dedicated to issues connected with the foundation and functioning of a leading the Ru...