About the book: 2011 / The book "Stalin's Metro" is a historical guide that will help present metro stations in their original splendor, learn the ideological meaning of their architectural and artistic design , to trace the path of “Stalinist neoclassicism” from its inception to its decline. This is the first publication about the Moscow metro, which explores in the most objective and detailed way the process of “fighting the cult of personality” in the artistic decoration of stations, structures all the architectural losses that occurred in the metro in different periods. For a wide range of readers interested in the history of the metro and Soviet art.