عنوان

Saving Stalin's imperial city :

(Number (ISBN

0253014840

(Number (ISBN

9780253014849

Erroneous ISBN

9780253014894

Number

b411187

Title Proper

Saving Stalin's imperial city :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

historic preservation in Leningrad, 1930-1950 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Steven Maddox

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 284 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Old Petersburg, preservation movements, and the Soviet state's "turn to the past" -- These monuments must be protected! : Leningrad's imperial cityscape at war -- Projecting Soviet power : historic restoration as commemoration in postwar Leningrad -- "When Ivan comes, there will be nothing left" : rebuilding and reimagining the historic monuments in Leningrad's suburbs -- Becoming "Leningraders" : official commemorations of the Blockade -- Cold War complications : Soviet patriotism, historic restoration, and the end of Blockade commemorations

0

Text of Note

"Saving Stalin's Imperial City is a story of preservation, restoration, and commemoration in Leningrad during and after World War II. It is a history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders' determination to preserve the memory of the terrible siege the city had survived. The book stresses the counterintuitive nature of Stalinist policies, which allocated scarce wartime resources to save historic monuments from the tsarist and imperial past when the very existence of the Soviet state was threatened, and again after the war, when housing, hospitals, and schools needed to be rebuilt. While not all monuments were safe from destruction, the state's ideological move toward promoting Soviet patriotism led to policies that promoted heritage preservation, especially after Germany systematically sought to destroy monuments as a means of erasing evidence of Russian history and culture. When the war ended, Leningrad was at the forefront of a concerted restoration effort, fueled by commemorations that glorified the city's wartime experience, encouraged civic pride, and mobilized residents to restore their hometown. For Leningrad, the restoration of monuments and commemorations of the siege were intimately intertwined, served similar purposes, and were mutually reinforcing"--Provided by publisher

Parallel Title

Historic preservation in Leningrad, 1930-1950

Architecture-- Conservation and restoration-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

City planning-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

Historic buildings-- Conservation and restoration-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

Historic preservation-- Government policy-- Soviet Union-- History

Historic preservation-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

Memorials-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

Monuments-- Conservation and restoration-- Russia (Federation)-- Saint Petersburg-- History-- 20th century

Saint Petersburg (Russia), Buildings, structures, etc

Saint Petersburg (Russia), History, Siege, 1941-1944

Soviet Union, Cultural policy

0

0

0

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Maddox, Steven,1979-

Date of Transaction

20150203233134.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y