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The Destruction and Resurrection of the Temple

A Chapter from the History of the Conservation of Historical Monuments in Times of the Socialist Dictatorship

Author(s): Jakub Bachtík
Subject(s): Architecture, History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: North Bohemia; communist; urban planning; cultural landscape; destructions

Summary/Abstract: Dilapidated historical towns, churches in ruins, large-scale demolition of whole town quarters to be replaced with concrete blocks of flats and, in the case of North Bohemia, even the liquidation of extensive areas of the cultural landscape – all of this shapes in our memory a typical picture of the care the communists took of towns and monuments. The picture is so obvious that so far we have hardly been able to ask how this cultural catastrophe could have actually happened.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2019
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 48-59
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech