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This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and
annexing the German East Prussian city of Koenigsberg in 1945 and
renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model
of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the
remaining German people, repopulated the city and region with
settlers from elsewhere in the Soviet Union, destroyed the key
remaining German buildings and began building a model Soviet city,
a physical manifestation of the societal transformation brought
about by communism. However, the book goes on to show that over
time many of the model Soviet buildings were uncompleted and that
the citizens, aware of their Polish and Lithuanian neighbours to
both the east and the west and appreciating their place in the
wider Baltic region, came to view themselves as something different
from other Soviet and Russian citizens. The book concludes by
assessing present developments as the people of Kaliningrad are
increasingly rediscovering the city's pre-Soviet past and forging a
new identity for themselves on their own terms.
This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and
annexing the German East Prussian city of Koenigsberg in 1945 and
renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model
of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the
remaining German people, repopulated the city and region with
settlers from elsewhere in the Soviet Union, destroyed the key
remaining German buildings and began building a model Soviet city,
a physical manifestation of the societal transformation brought
about by communism. However, the book goes on to show that over
time many of the model Soviet buildings were uncompleted and that
the citizens, aware of their Polish and Lithuanian neighbours to
both the east and the west and appreciating their place in the
wider Baltic region, came to view themselves as something different
from other Soviet and Russian citizens. The book concludes by
assessing present developments as the people of Kaliningrad are
increasingly rediscovering the city's pre-Soviet past and forging a
new identity for themselves on their own terms.
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