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Monuments for Posterity
2023
Overview
Monuments for Posterity
challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments
were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function,
arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present
for an imagined posterity. In this respect, even while
pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness
and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime was broadly in
step with transnational monument-building trends of the era and
their undergirding cultural dynamics.
By integrating approaches from cultural history, art criticism,
and memory studies, along with previously unexplored archival
material, Antony Kalashnikov examines the origin and implementation
of the Stalinist monument-building program from the perspective of
its goal to \"immortalize the memory\" of the era. He analyzes how
this objective affected the design and composition of Stalinist
monuments, what cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful
yearning to be remembered, and most importantly, what the culture
of self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the
future-both in the Soviet Union and beyond its borders.
Monuments for Posterity shifts the perspective from
monuments' political-ideological content to the desire to be
remembered and prompts a much-needed reconsideration of the
supposed uniqueness of both Stalinist aesthetics and the temporal
culture that they expressed. Many Stalinist monuments still stand
prominently in postsocialist cityscapes and remain the subject of
continual heated political controversy. Kalashnikov makes manifest
monuments' intentional attempts to seduce us-the \"posterity\" for
whom they were built.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Architecture & Architectural History
/ ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments
/ cultural history of Stalinism
/ Europe
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ Memorialization -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
/ Monuments -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ Russian & Former Soviet Union
/ Socialist realism and architecture
/ Socialist realism and architecture -- Russia (Federation)
/ SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY
/ Soviet and Russian nationalism
/ Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
/ Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.GBC325474
/ World
ISBN
1501768638, 9781501768637, 1501768646, 9781501768644, 1501768654, 9781501768651, 1501774271, 9781501774270
