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9780801468865

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's "first socialist city" by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Krakow, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with "new men," themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta's construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow explores their various encounters with the ideology and practice of Stalinist mobilization by seeking out their voices in memoirs, oral history interviews, and archival records, juxtaposing these against both the official and unofficial transcripts of Stalinism. Far from the gray and regimented landscape we imagine Stalinism to have been, the fledgling city was a colorful and anarchic place where the formerly disenfranchised (peasants, youth, women) hastened to assert their leading role in "building socialism"-but rarely in ways that authorities had anticipated.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

12 juin 2013

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780801468865

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

UninîshedUtopîa

UninîsedUtopîa

NowaHuta,Stalînîsm,andPolîshSocîety,1949–56

KaterîneLebow

CORNELL UNI VERS I T Y P RES S

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Lebow, Katerîne, 1970– autor. Uninîsed utopîa : Nowa Huta, Staînîsm, and Poîs socîety, 1949–56 / Katerîne Lebow. pages cm Incudes bîbîograpîca reerences and îndex. ISBN 978-0-8014-5124-9 (cot : ak. paper) 1. Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poand)—Hîstory—20t century. 2. Nowa Huta (Kraków, Poand)— Socîa îe and customs—20t century. 3. Communîsm and cuture—Poand—Kraków— Hîstory. 4. Work-îe baance—Poand—Kraków—Hîstory—20t century. I. Tîte. DK4727.N69L43 2013 943.8'62—dc23 2012048678

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Acknowledgments

Abooksoongîntemakîngîncursmanydebts,andîtîsaong-awaîtedpeasure to acknowedge some o tem ere. FînancîasupportorresearcwasprovîdedbyteAmerîcanCouncîoLearned Socîetîes, Fubrîgt-IIE, te European Unîversîty Instîtute, New-caste Unîversîty, and te Unîversîty o Vîrgînîa. Earîer versîons o capters appeared în Davîd Crowey and Susan E. Reîd, eds.,Pleasures în Socîalîsm: Leîsure and Luxury în the Eastern Bloc(Evanston: Nortwestern Unîversîty Press, ), andContemporary European Hîstory, no.  (): –. I tank Nortwestern and Cambrîdge Unîversîty Press or permîttîng me to use tem ere. MoreîkeaaîrygodaterandgodmotertanaDoktorvater und -Mutter, István Deák and Vîctorîa de Grazîa at Coumbîa Unîversîty ave watced over me or years, provîdîng înput and advîce wen most needed. I am extremey grateu or everytîng tey ave done. At Coumbîa, Anna Frajîc-Zając taugt me Poîs as ony a poet coud. Fran Rosened commented extensîvey on an eary drat, wîe te “Deák” coort ormed te nuceus o wat as turned out to be a coegîa, îvey, and ever-expandîng înteectua communîty o East Centra Europeanîsts, înspîred by te umanîstîc scoarsîp o our egendary mentor. Its members, broady understood, ave contrîbuted to tîs project în many ways. DurîngmyresearcînPoandIbeneitedenormousyromJacekPurca’sgenerous ofer o mentorsîp. Oters wo sared teîr expertîse on Nowa Huta and Poîs îstory încuded Adam Bartosz, Jędrzej Cumîńskî, Dorota Gut, Darîusz Jarosz, Henryk Kazîmîerskî, Jacek Kocanowîcz, Monîka Ko-zubek, and Macîej Mîezîan; I am aso very grateu to my întervîewees or teîr tîme and wîîngness to sare teîr storîes. I was eped by many staf mem-bers o te Arcîve o Modern Records, te Arcîve o te Cîty o Kraków, te Instîtute o Natîona Memory, and te Jagîeonîan Unîversîty Lîbrary;

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