Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Beyond Totalitarian Monuments 1
5. 1. Stalinist Monuments in Context 16
6. 2. Historicist Aesthetics: Developing an Enduring Architecture 30
7. 3. Synthetic Composition: Anticipating Posterity’s Gaze 49
8. 4. The (Un)contested Politics of Stalinist Monument Building 71
9. 5. The Cultural Foundations of Stalinist Monument Building 97
10. 6. Self-Commemoration and the Interwar Culture of Time 113
11. Epilogue: Posterity’s Monuments 130
12. Notes 145
13. Bibliography 175
14. Index 197