Unfinished Utopia Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56

Name: Unfinished Utopia Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56
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ISBN: 9780801451249

ISBN-10: 0801451248

ISBN-13: 9780801451249

Edition: 2016

Authors: Katherine A. Lebow

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Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Unplanned City



New Men



The Poor Worker Breaks His Legs



Women of Steel



The Enlightenment of Kasza



Spaces of Solidarity, 1956-89


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index