Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

by Michal Murawski

Book Overview

The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253039967
• ISBN13: 9780253039965
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher