{"product_id":"monuments-for-posterity-antony-kalashnikov-9781501774270","title":"Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonuments for Posterity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity.\u003c\/b\u003e In this respect, even while pursuing its monument-building program with a singular ruthlessness and on an unprecedented scale, the Stalinist regime was broadly in step with transnational monument-building trends of the era and their undergirding cultural dynamics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy integrating approaches from cultural history, art criticism, and memory studies, along with previously unexplored archival material, Antony Kalashnikov examines the origin and implementation of the Stalinist monument-building program from the perspective of its goal to \"immortalize the memory\" of the era. He analyzes how this objective affected the design and composition of Stalinist monuments, what cultural factors prompted the sudden and powerful yearning to be remembered, and most importantly, what the culture of self-commemoration revealed about changing outlooks on the future--both in the Soviet Union and beyond its borders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonuments for Posterity\u003c\/i\u003e shifts the perspective from monuments' political-ideological content to the desire to be remembered and prompts a much-needed reconsideration of the supposed uniqueness of both Stalinist aesthetics and the temporal culture that they expressed. Many Stalinist monuments still stand prominently in postsocialist cityscapes and remain the subject of continual heated political controversy. Kalashnikov makes manifest monuments' intentional attempts to seduce us--the \"posterity\" for whom they were built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antony Kalashnikov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501774271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501774270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Antony Kalashnikov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46173087498495,"sku":"9781501774270","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c7ec362-07eb-423a-be23-649363a43e4b.jpg?v=1727179952","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/monuments-for-posterity-antony-kalashnikov-9781501774270","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}