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Record Nr.

UNINA9910865291803321

Autore

Colla Marcus

Titolo

Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9783031545818

9783031545801

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages)

Collana

St Antony's Series

Altri autori (Persone)

BettsPaul

Disciplina

320.5310904

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 What, Where, and When Was Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century? -- A Brief History of Space -- A Space of Its Own? Socialism and Space -- Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century -- Part I Making Socialist Space -- 2 Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools -- Stalinist Space and Socialist Space -- Stalinist Space: Shape and Scale -- Stalinist Space: Landscapes and Nature -- Stalinist Space: Politics and Peoples -- The Temporalities of Stalinist Space -- Conclusion: Spatial Agency -- Select Bibliography -- 3 Room to Experiment: Housing Newlyweds During China's Early Reform Era -- A Space and a Problem: The Dilemma of Youth -- An Idea and a Dream: Designing the Socialist Wedding Chamber -- Individualised Collectivity: The Modular Wedding Chamber -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Listening to East Berlin: Can a Soundscape Be Socialist? -- Freie Deutsche Jugend Parades -- Radio -- Church Bells -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Part II Globalising Socialist Space -- 5 Global Bridges, Local Ruins? Re-thinking Socialist Spaces Through the Experience of Non-aligned Enterprises -- Thinking Outside the Blocs: the NAM as a Space of Alternatives? -- Enterprises as Spaces of Cooperation -- Portals of Globalisation -- Conclusions -- Select Bibliography -- 6 The Reordering of Space and Reference: Polish



Geologists in West Africa and Their Mapping of the Postcolonial Order in the 1960s -- Creating a Socialist Space: Decolonialisation and Polish Geologists in West Africa -- Testing the Socialist Space: Polish Experts as Agents of Change -- Othering Socialist Space: Polish Experts and Their Worlding -- Translating the Space: Conclusion -- Select Bibliography.

7 Building the Space of Internationalism: Socialist Assistance to Mongolia in the 1950s-1970s -- Introduction -- Planning -- Construction Sites and Workers' Settlements -- Housing and Urban Space -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- 8 A World of Their Own: Vietnamese Students in Late Socialist Poland -- A Brief History of Polish-Vietnamese Relations -- Scientific Collaboration and Student Visits -- Shared Experiences: Becoming Transnational Socialist Subjects -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Building, Rebuilding, and Destroying Socialist Space -- 9 Performing Universality: Building Norms and the Circulation of Theatre Architecture in the RSFSR -- A 'Universal' Right to Leisure -- Debating and Drafting the SNiP-69 -- Mediating Customised and Typified Modes of Architecture -- Silencing Cultural Erasure -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 A Monument to Friendship: Socialist Modernity and the Reconstruction of Tashkent, 1966-1975 -- Modernity at The Margins -- Traces of Tradition -- The Star of the East -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Moscow's Khrushchevki in Flux: Reflections on the Imminent Demolition of Twentieth-Century Socialist Housing -- A Blemish on the World-Class City Façade -- Evolving Approaches to the Future of Socialist Space -- 'Renovating' Moscow: What Is Lost? What Is Gained? -- Contradictory Convictions -- Insecure Futures -- Spaces of Nature, Not Concrete -- A Tandem of 'Aesthetic Activism' -- In Conclusion: The Off-Modern Khrushchevka? -- References -- Part IV Epilogue -- 12 Space Exploration: The Coordinates of History: An Afterword -- References -- Index.