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2019 , Vol. 8 >Issue 4: 572 - 590

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2019.06.004

Research Article

Reconstruction of the remembrance: Palace of Culture in Slantsy

  • Tatiana Sergeevna Reshetnikova
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  • Architecture and Urbanism, Institut für Europäische Urbanistik, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

Received date: 19 Dec 2018

Revised date: 03 Jun 2019

Accepted date: 05 Jun 2019

Published date: 15 Dec 2019

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2019 2019 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Abstract

Impressive public architecture has a power to influence and imbue a space with a legend and cultural and social values and accumulate collective memories. A Palace of Culture, or Dvorets Kul’tury in Russian, represents a socialist belief, commonwealth, and people’s democracy. The monumental Stalinist Palace of Culture is a multifunctional public architecture that was built as a sociocultural epicenter in many Soviet cities. The case of the Palace of Culture in Slantsy, which is a mining town in Leningrad Region in Russia, may be an eloquent projection of this building type and its era. The edifice is currently under reconstruction after its abandonment for a long time, thereby entailing the reincarnation of citizens’ memories and the creation of new hopes and experiences.

Key words： Neoclassicism; Palace of culture; Collective memory; Sociocultural values; Reconstruction; Slantsy town

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Tatiana Sergeevna Reshetnikova . Reconstruction of the remembrance: Palace of Culture in Slantsy[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2019 , 8(4) : 572 -590 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2019.06.004

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