Błażej Brzostek

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Blazej Brzostek (1977-) is a historian who currently works at the University of Warsaw and the Museum of Warsaw. He deals with the cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth century, the history of cities, urban societies, and modernization. Newer publications:, “Urban and rural development in Eastern Europe,” (with Ivana Dobrivojević) in: The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: vol 1 (Routledge 2020); “Wstecz. Historia Warszawy do początku” [Back. History of Warsaw to the beginning] (Warsaw: Muzeum Warszawy, 2021).

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  • Soundscapes of Stalinism: Acoustical Experiences in Bucharest in the 1940s and 1950s (2022) author(s): Błażej Brzostek published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    In this paper I point out phenomena related to the perception of sounds in Bucharest during the Stalinist period (1948-1956). I refer to personal accounts – diaries and memoirs – of representants of the city’s former social elite, sentenced to various deprivations under the communist regime. I focus on descriptive accounts of sounds in the city’s everyday life. The sounds are treated as an expression of the mental experiences of their listeners. In the sources collected here, the key experience is a reduction of agency, associated with existential anxiety.
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