Historic Preservation in Leningrad, 1930–1950
by
Steven M. Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Saving Stalin’s Imperial City is the history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders’ determination to honor the memory of the terrible siege the city had endured during World War II. The book stresses the counterintuitive nature of Stalinist policies, which...