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

Building Moscow’s “Seven Sisters” Changed the City ForeverConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 912, Segment 1

Mar 15, 2021 • 32m

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"

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