Building Stalinism : the Moscow Canal and the creation of Soviet space /

Today, the 80-mile long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of its potable water. Yet the past looms heavy over these quotidian activities: the canal was built by Gulag inmates at the height of Stalinism and thousands di...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ruder, Cynthia Ann, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Series:Library of modern Russia ; 2.
Subjects:
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953 > Political and social views.
Stalin, Joseph, > 1878-1953
1900-1999
Forced labor > Soviet Union > History.
Travail forcé > URSS > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Forced labor
Political and social views
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.
Moscow Canal (Russia) > History > 20th century.
URSS > Histoire > 1925-1953.
Russia (Federation) > Moscow Canal
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction surveying the site: historical framework and spatial parameters
  • Water as power: real and imagined
  • How the gulag built the Moscow Canal
  • Creating metaphorical and ideological space: cultural production and the Moscow Canal
  • Monuments, monumentality, and memory: forgetting and remembering
  • The present and future of the Moscow Canal.

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