"Andere Räume": sowjetische Kurorte als Heterotopien. Das Beispiel Sotschi

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • K. Schlögel
Book title Mastering Russian Spaces: Raum und Raumbewältigung als Probleme der russischen Geschichte
ISBN
  • 9783486704457
Series Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, 74
Pages (from-to) 187-197
Publisher München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Abstract Based on Foucault's 'Of other places' the chapter discusses the changing spatialand symbolic relations of Soviet cities and he~lth resorts. The study focuses on Sochi: This Black Sea resort, of little importance before the revolution, became the preferred object of Stalinist development plans in the 1930s. In the following two decades Sochi was turned into the showcase spa of the Soviet Union. Architecture and town planning mirrored the 1935 Moscow development plan before a 'profanation' set in with the democratisation of tourism and travel under Khrushchev.
Document type Chapter
Language German
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