The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space

Book Overview

This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. At the time, the iconoclasm of the immediate postrevolutionary years had given way to nation building and a conscious attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295983418
• ISBN13: 9780295983417
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"