Landscapes of Communism
Author: Hatherley, Owen
ISBN: 9780141975894
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 624
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
An evocative historical journey in search of the landscapes that communism built
During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post-Revolution Kiev, the buildings, their most obvious legacy, remain. Landscapes of Communism is an intimate history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings; it is, too, a book about power, and what power does in cities.
ISBN: 9780141975894
Publisher: Penguin Press
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 624
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
An evocative historical journey in search of the landscapes that communism built
During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post-Revolution Kiev, the buildings, their most obvious legacy, remain. Landscapes of Communism is an intimate history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings; it is, too, a book about power, and what power does in cities.
