March 21, 2024Journal of Urban HistoryOpen Access

Banal Socialism: The Role of Ideology in Late Soviet Era Urban Reconstruction—The Case of Vilnius

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RRRugilė RožėnėVilnius University

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Case analysis reveals how routinized communist ideology guided urban reconstruction in late Soviet Vilnius, suggesting mundane planning practices sustained socialist landscape design.

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Radical urban reconstruction plans in the late Soviet era were deeply rooted in communist ideology, even as chronic housing shortages made widespread demolitions undesirable.
Historical case analysis of Vilnius during the 1960s to 1980s examines how urban planning reconciled conflicting ideological stances with pressing municipal housing shortages.
Highlights how communist ideology underwent banalization into routinized forms, showing that subtle administrative practices still actively shaped a distinctive socialist landscape.

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Rugilė Rožėnė (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e7318cb6db6435876aae6e https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241240794

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Case analysis reveals how routinized communist ideology guided urban reconstruction in late Soviet Vilnius, suggesting mundane planning practices sustained socialist landscape design.

Banal Socialism: The Role of Ideology in Late Soviet Era Urban Reconstruction—The Case of Vilnius

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