The main ideas of the Stalinist architecture, art déco totalitarian skyscrapers, powerful „imperial” administrative palaces and the classic revival in one post Moscow Expo, 1954 The Stalinist architecture was a current in the USSR in the mid-1930s, which had fallen in the mid-1950s and was specific to Joseph Stalin's totalitarian ambitions. This architecture combined several styles, united by common characters that distinguished Stalinist architecture from the other architectural currents of the USSR (constructivism, rationalism) and from outside (mainly modernism). Its role was classic monumentalism that combines elements of empire, eclectic and art déco. After the Second World War, the Stalinist architecture expanded into the European Communist countries, the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Wonderful examples of this style in Europe can be found in ex-Soviet republics, Poland and Romania. This architecture is appr...
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