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Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow is a biography by that chronicles the life of Boris Iofan . Iofan was the favored architect of Joseph Stalin and the mind behind some of the most ambitious (and often unbuilt) monuments of the Soviet era. 🏛️ The Architect: Boris Iofan

The book focuses on how architecture was used as a tool for political propaganda and state identity. Stalins_Architect_Power_and_Survival_in_Moscowzip

: Iofan’s most famous "failure." It was designed to be the tallest building in the world, topped with a 100-meter statue of Lenin. It was never finished due to WWII and was later replaced by a swimming pool. Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow is