Abstract
The first study of its kind, Marek Hendrykowski’s paper examines frame by frame the symbolic role of the construction of the Palace of Culture in the ideological context of the Stalinist period and its emergence into the realm of public discourse in the early 1950s.
Highlights
Monument No 1 – architectural icon of socialist realism in Poland
When the idea of building a monumental memorial to communism on the Vistula was born in the generalissimo’s mind one thing became absolutely clear to the documentary filmmakers: it necessary to record everything
Thousands of metres of film stock about the construction of the Palace of Culture – currently sitting in the Documentary and Feature Film Archive at Chełmska Street – are illustrative material, which is very clear in many respects
Summary
Monument No 1 – architectural icon of socialist realism in Poland. It was called the “monument to friendship”, “Soviet gift”, “Stalin’s gift”, and “the dream of a crazy confectioner”, “Russian fist”, “there’s no knowing what,” “presumed modernity” and “superfluous miracle” (this was Stefan Kisielewski).
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