ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

From Ruins to Reconstruction : Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801462412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Ruins to ReconstructionDDC classification:
  • 307.7609477/1
LOC classification:
  • D829.U4 -- Q35 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- FROM RUINS TO RECONSTRUCTION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Archival Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rebuilding as an Urban Identification Project -- 1. Wartime Destruction and Historical Identification -- 2. Local Victory over Moscow: Planning for the Future -- 3. Accommodation: Bringing Life to the Rubble -- 4. Agitation: Rewriting the Urban Biography in Stone -- 5. Persistence and Resilience of Local Identification -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery "bests" the Stalinist center.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Cover -- FROM RUINS TO RECONSTRUCTION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Archival Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rebuilding as an Urban Identification Project -- 1. Wartime Destruction and Historical Identification -- 2. Local Victory over Moscow: Planning for the Future -- 3. Accommodation: Bringing Life to the Rubble -- 4. Agitation: Rewriting the Urban Biography in Stone -- 5. Persistence and Resilience of Local Identification -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Based on extensive research in archives in both Moscow and Sevastopol, architectural plans and drawings, interviews, and his own extensive experience in Sevastopol, Qualls tells a unique story in which the periphery "bests" the Stalinist center.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.