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

Main entry:

DeHaan, Heather D., 1974- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9781442645349 (bound)
1442645342 (bound)
9781487521660 (paperback)
1487521669 (paperback)

Subject:

Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 Influence.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 Influence
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
City planning Soviet Union History.
City planning Political aspects Soviet Union History.
City planners Soviet Union History.
Architecture Political aspects Soviet Union History.
City planning Soviet Union History 20th century.
City planning Political aspects Soviet Union History 20th century.
City planners Soviet Union History 20th century.
Urbanisme URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Aspect politique URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanistes URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Aspect politique URSS Histoire 20e siècle.
Urbanistes URSS Histoire.
Architecture Aspect politique URSS Histoire.
15.70 history of Europe.
74.72 urban planning.
21.73 urban development (architecture)
Architecture Political aspects.
City planners.
City planning.
City planning Political aspects.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Stalinismus
Political aspects.
Soviet Union.
Sowjetunion

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283733
Call No.: BIB 222111
Status: Available

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