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Journal of Design History 1997 10(2):203-223; doi:10.1093/jdh/10.2.203
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People's Warsaw / Popular Warsaw

DAVID CROWLEY

University of Brighton


  Abstract

This article explores the concept of the popular and the operation of memory with regard to the reconstruction of Warsaw after its almost total destruction in 1944. From 1949 an unpopular Communist regime sought to draw political legitimacy from the programme of reconstruction. It engaged in ostentatious campaigns to promote the this work which included vast urban spectacles inaugurating new sections of the city. In this article analysis is made of the promotion of the reconstruction of the Old Town in 1953 and the construction of the Palace of Culture and Science in the name of Joseph Stalin in 1955. Particular consideration is made of the views of ordinary Poles of these events, which were often misrepresented in both official rhetoric and oppositional literature. In this light, how should we assess the culture of ‘totalitarian’ regimes in terms of audiences and their pleasures?


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