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This richly illustrated monograph discusses post-war modernist architecture in Soviet Lithuania which, together with other Baltic republics, has been seen as exceptional, appropriating Western cultural models much faster and with greater passion, and was labelled "the Soviet West." Nevertheless, the matter of identifying the speci c architectural traits that distinguished modernism in the Baltic region from that of other Soviet republics is not a simple exercise, and the speci city of socialist modernism clearly requires a social-political approach. In this book research on Soviet Lithuanian architecture relies on the relationship between of cial planning discourse and local social practice, and the wide range of historical actors in planning practices.

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Dremait_, Marija
Marija Dremaite is an associate professor at Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Department of Theory of History and Cultural History. She holds a PhD in History of Architecture (2006) and her academic interest is focused on twentieth-century architecture, socialist modernism and industrial heritage. In 2012 she co-authored a book on architecture in Soviet Lithuania and in 2016 she published a book on modern industrial architecture in Lithuania between 1920 and 1940.

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