Petersburg Soviet. "New man" in the old space. 1920 - 1930
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The book of the famous St. Petersburg historians of Professors V. S. Izmozik and N. B. Lebina is devoted to the social history of Petrograd-Leningrad 1920-1930s., Relationships of "new", Soviet people and the spaces of the old, imperial capital. As part of a unique microforic study, the close relationship of the fate of the well-known St. Petersburg monuments and architectural and landscape complexes, on the one hand, and various aspects of the private and public life of citizens - on the other hand, are traced. The work is made on an extensive documentary material, primarily on the data of St. Petersburg archives. The book is told about the adventure associated with the installation of the monument V. I. Lenin on the Alexander Column and the relationship of the intelligentsia and the authorities, about prostitutes from the Square and attempts to their social rehabilitation, the desecration of the shrines of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and the formation of new Soviet rituals, The Soviet elite and repression, the victims of whom were residents of the famous Kirov house on Kamennoostrovsky Prospect. The book presents rare photos from urban and private archives. The publication is intended for both specialists and all interested in the history of the city on the Neva to the Soviet era
Author:
Author:Izmozik Vladlen Semenovich
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Politics & Social Science
ISBN:
ISBN: 978-5-901805-62-6
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