Stalinist architecture
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architectural style
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It sits within the topics 20th-century architectural styles, Architecture in Russia and Architecture in the Soviet Union.
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- Instance of
- architectural style
- Subclass of
- socialist realism
- Named after
- real socialism
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- building:architecture=stalinist_neoclassicism
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Encyclopedic overview
The main building of Moscow State University
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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