Palace Complex
Subtitle: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780253039941
Subjects: Europe, eastern, history
Description: The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was ""gifted"" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Author Michał Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw, exploring the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.