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HIST233: The 'Totalitarian' City: Fascist Rome, Nazi Berlin and Soviet Moscow

The totalitarian regimes in Italy (1922-43), Germany (1933-45), and the Soviet Union (under Stalin - 1920s-1953) sought to remake their respective capital cities of Rome, Berlin, and Moscow. Their diverse ideas were extraordinary in scale and ambition. Modernist architecture in its multiple expressions and cutting-edge principles of modern urban planning were utilised to express, physically and symbolically, the new 'revolutionary' values of Fascism, National Socialism, and Communism. Mussolini's 'third Rome', Hitler's 'Germania', and Stalin's 'world proletarian capital' were meant to become awe-inspiring showcases of the regimes' alleged achievements and a celebration of their ambition to become universal powers. HIST233 explores how each of the three regimes imagined and sought to (re)construct its capital city as a perfect reflection of its ideology and vision for the future. Through extensive demolitions, reconfigurations of space, selective uses of history, and extraordinary new constructions, the three regimes sought to conquer their respective capital cities and communicate their power both visually and symbolically.

For further information on HIST233 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

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