Агитировать и создавать условия: перепланировка города-героя Севастополя, 1944–1953 гг.
To Agitate and to Render Service: Replanning the Hero-City Sevastopol, 1944–1953

Summary/Abstract: This article examines some of the ways that city planners, and local authorities in particular, sought to use agitation and accommodation to rebuild Sevastopol after World War II. Through a combination of accommodation (i.e. trying to meet residents daily needs) and agitation (e.g. using the city’s nineteenth-century naval heritage to construct an urban biography), officials sought to attract and retain a workforce to reconstruct the city. In the process, Sevastopol emerged with a new urban biography that, while still Soviet, had its roots in the pre-Revolutionary era and defined the city and its residents as hero-defenders of the Motherland.

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