The View from the Vysotka: A Portrait of Russia Today Through One of Moscow's Most Famous Addresses by Anne Nivat

The View from the Vysotka: A Portrait of Russia Today Through One of Moscow's Most Famous Addresses

Anne Nivat with Frances E. Forte (Translator)

256 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history dark reflective tense medium-paced
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Completed shortly before Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the vysotkii, or "sky houses," still dominate the Moscow skyline today. Seven in all, they were the Soviet answer to the American skyscraper, transforming the Soviet capital from a feudal bac...

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