Abstract
For the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL), the 1970s was a decade of luxury, characterized by a boom in hotel and vacation resort building. The perception of the attributes of capitalist consumption as signs of progress demonstrates that the Communist regime was ready to submit to a process of “auto-colonization” and create a hyperrealist picture of the West as a model. The new luxury was not available to everyone, and its “democratization” was only possible in resorts constructed by state-owned enterprises. In the 1970s, recreation architecture offered a form of control over society. If referred to Bakhtin’s notion of “carnivalization” defined as a temporary inversion of social order and suspension of ordinary life, hotels may be considered as the spaces of such “carnivalization of reality.”
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