For Josef Stalin, infrastructure was propaganda. He lavished the most luxurious materials at his disposal on subway stations in Moscow, and dynamited the city's largest Tsarist cathedral to make way ...

After seeing so many readers offended by Linda Ronstadt’s recent comments (which came as a followup to an interview she did on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show) regarding Downtown Tucson’s newer “Stalinist ...

Historian Katherine Zubovich will discuss her new book Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital, an in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper. In the early years of ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is revisiting the music of Stalin's Russia. We hear about Stalin's "Edifice Complex," and one American's experience as an architect working for the dictator. Plus, the ...

In the 1950s, premier of the Soviet state Joseph Stalin transformed the skyline of Moscow by building seven-tiered skyscrapers, which filled the horizon like Socialist-era wedding cakes. The spires ...

Editor’s Note: Deyan Sudjic is director of London’s Design Museum. This is an edited excerpt from “Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution,” the book accompanying a new exhibition at the ...