Designs of Soviet war monuments, 1941–1945: transformation of the memorial genre, the models, the visual language and its sources.

The article examines Soviet memorial designs of the Great Patriotic War period (1941–1945). These monuments were unorthodox in terms of visual language, and they differed strikingly from the Stalinist neoclassical mainstream of the previous decade. Architects tried to find means of commemoration of...

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Published in:	Zeitschrift für Slawistik Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 290 - 323
Main Author:	Bass Associate Professor, Vadim
Format:	Article
Published:	De Gruyter 2021
Subjects:	Visual programming languages (Computer science) Stalinism Political doctrines Poetics Memorials Emotions
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