We are building the New Prague! Spatial and Visual Dimension of Stalinism in the Context of Historical Cities
2017
Abstract
The Stalinist period of the modern Czechoslovak history is usually reflected only through the simplistic quasi-totalitarian paradigm. Based on example of Prague, the paper deals with an alternative perspective inspired by some ideas of the "spatial turn".
The process of (re)constructing the historical urban space and the image of the city is analyzed as one of the most important tools for realization of the communist vision of the new society.