Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (New Anthropologies of Europe) - Softcover

Murawski, Michal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253039967 ISBN 13: 9780253039965

Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2019

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Reseña del editor

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michal Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.

Biografía del autor

Michal Murawski is Assistant Professor in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0253039967
• ISBN 13: 9780253039965
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366