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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...

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Main Authors: Murawski, Michał
Published: Indiana University Press,
Publisher Address: Bloomington, Indiana :
Publication Dates: [2019]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: New anthropologies of Europe
Subjects:
Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie
Architecture and society > Poland > Warsaw
Municipal buildings > Poland > Warsaw
Warsaw Poland > Buildings, structures, etc
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.
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.
Carrier Form: xxiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.
ISBN: 9780253039965
0253039967
9780253039941
0253039940
Index Number: DK4645
CLC: TU-095.13
Call Number: TU-095.13/M972

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