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Monuments for Posterity - Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (Hardcover)
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Monuments for Posterity - Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (Hardcover)
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Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that
Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate,
propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to
memorialize the present for an imagined posterity. In this respect,
even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular
ruthlessness and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime
was broadly in step with transnational monument-building trends of
the era and their undergirding cultural dynamics. By integrating
approaches from cultural history, art criticism, and memory
studies, along with previously unexplored archival material, Antony
Kalashnikov examines the origin and implementation of the Stalinist
monument-building program from the perspective of its goal to
"immortalize the memory" of the era. He analyzes how this objective
affected the design and composition of Stalinist monuments, what
cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful yearning to be
remembered, and most importantly, what the culture of
self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the
future—both in the Soviet Union and beyond its borders. Monuments
for Posterity shifts the perspective from monuments'
political-ideological content to the desire to be remembered and
prompts a much-needed reconsideration of the supposed uniqueness of
both Stalinist aesthetics and the temporal culture that they
expressed. Many Stalinist monuments still stand prominently in
postsocialist cityscapes and remain the subject of continual heated
political controversy. Kalashnikov makes manifest monuments'
intentional attempts to seduce us—the "posterity" for whom they
were built.
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