Totalitarian architecture

Totalitarian architecture is a term utilized to refer to "the officially approved architecture of dictatorships, over-centralized governments, or political groups intolerant of opposition, especially that of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, etc. As an international style, it often drew on simplified Neoclassicism, and sculpture based on 19th-century realism and Classicism for massive oversized State monuments." Such architecture was intended to support the leaders and the ideology of the regime.

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Totalitarian architecture

Totalitarian architecture is a term utilized to refer to "the officially approved architecture of dictatorships, over-centralized governments, or political groups intolerant of opposition, especially that of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, etc. As an international style, it often drew on simplified Neoclassicism, and sculpture based on 19th-century realism and Classicism for massive oversized State monuments." Such architecture was intended to support the leaders and the ideology of the regime.

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