The Palace complex : a Stalinist skyscraper, capitalist Warsaw, and a city transfixed /
The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Summary: | The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2014, under the title: Palace Complex : the social life of a Stalinist skyscraper in post-socialist Warsaw. |
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253039967 9780253039965 9780253039941 0253039940 |