Building Moscow’s “Seven Sisters” Changed the City Forever

Building Moscow’s “Seven Sisters” Changed the City Forever

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 912 , Segment 1

Monumental Cold War Stories

Episode: Monumental Cold War Stories

  • Mar 15, 2021 6:00 pm
  • 31:55 mins

Moscow’s “Seven Sisters” were part of a post-war push to transform the city into the socialist ideal. But the greatest of all the monuments, the Palace of the Soviets, which was started before before the war, was never completed. How building highrises transformed the city, and architecture itself. Guest: Katherine Zubovich, Assistant Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and author of "Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital"