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

Michal Murawski

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (New Anthropologies of Europe). To get started finding The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (New Anthropologies of Europe), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (New Anthropologies of Europe). To get started finding The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (New Anthropologies of Europe), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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