title: PRAGMATIC MODERNISM: PROJECT [<em>PROJEKT</em>] AND POLISH DESIGN, 1956-1970
abstract: Recently Scholars of design history began to recognize the phenomenon of Socialist Modernism, the return to modernist aesthetics to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the thaw, the disavowal of Stalinist policies by Nikita Khrushchev after the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party in February of 1956 and the resulting turn away from Socialist Realism, a historicist method in architecture that expressed socialist values, which the Stalinist favored. Scholars of art and design argued 
journal: UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)