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Manufacturing a socialist modernity

Zarecor, Kimberly Elman.

Manufacturing a socialist modernity housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 / [electronic resource] : Kimberly Elman Zarecor. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xiv, 383 p. :) ill., maps ; - Pitt series in Russian and East European studies . - Series in Russian and East European studies. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Writing a postwar history -- Phoenix rising : housing and the early debates on socialist modernity -- Typification and standardization : Stavoprojekt and the transformation of architectural practice -- National in form, socialist in content : Sorela and architectural imagery -- A vision of socialist architecture : the late career of Jiří Kroha -- The industrialization of housing : Zlín and the evolution of the Panelák -- Epilogue.

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Modern movement (Architecture)--Czechoslovakia.
Social change--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Socialism--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Housing--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Dwellings--Design and construction--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Architecture and state--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Architecture, Domestic--Political aspects--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.
Architecture, Domestic--History--Czechoslovakia--20th century.


Czechoslovakia--Social conditions--1945-1992.


Electronic books.

NA7412.C9 / Z37 2011

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