Tombs of the Great Leaders: A Contemporary Guide
Заголовок: Tombs of the Great Leaders: A Contemporary Guide
Автор(ы): Gwendolyn Leick
Издательство: Reaktion Books
Година: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1780232003
Страниц: 330
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 26 MB
Looking in depth at tombs built in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Gwendolyn Leick surveys the history of these modern leaders, their deaths, and the creation of the mausoleums. She traverses the globe, investigating the memorial sites of Communist leaders such as Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Kim Il-Sung; Fascist rulers Franco and Mussolini; and founding fathers of new nations, including Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka, Mohammed Ali Jinnah in Karachi, and Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing. Leick describes the experience of visiting the sites, the responses they elicit, and the context in which they are viewed today. Combining history, architecture, and travel writing, Tombs of the Great Leaders is a revealing study of the self-perpetuation of politicians, despots, and dictators alike.