Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture (Russian: Сталинская архитектура), mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is a leading movement in architecture, monumental, and decorative art in the USSR and other countries of the socialist bloc from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. The style developed under the conditions of a totalitarian state as a visual embodiment of the triumph of the socialist system, combining elements of classicism, baroque, Napoleonic Empire style, and art deco.

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