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The Palace Complex - A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (Paperback)
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The Palace Complex - A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed (Paperback)
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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 Michał 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.
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