Chronicles in Stone
Subtitle: Preservation, Patriotism, and Identity in Northwest Russia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781501747878
Subjects: Historic preservation; Historic buildings, conservation and restoration; Cultural property, protection; National characteristics, russian; Communism and culture
Description: "The book's central argument is that the Soviet state exploited the cultural heritage of the Northwest to craft patriotic narratives of the people's genius, heroism and strength that could bind the nation together after 1945"--