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Gigantomania, the Glossary

Gigantomania (from Ancient Greek γίγας gigas, "giant" and μανία mania, "madness") is the production of unusually and superfluously large works.^[1]

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ABC-Clio

ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Gigantomania and Adolf Hitler are totalitarianism.

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Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang)

The Arch of Triumph is a triumphal arch in Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Atlantic Wall

The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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Aztecs

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

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Breitspurbahn

The Breitspurbahn (translation: broad-gauge railway) was a planned broad-gauge railway, proposed during the time of Nazi Germany, supposed to run with double-deck coaches between major cities of Grossdeutschland, Hitler's expanded Germany,Puffert, Douglas J. (2009).

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Cult of personality

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.

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De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization (translit) comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the thaw brought about by ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power, and his 1956 secret speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", which denounced Stalin's cult of personality and the Stalinist political system. Gigantomania and de-Stalinization are Stalinism.

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Deutsches Stadion

The Deutsches Stadion ("German Stadium") was a monumental stadium designed by Albert Speer for the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg, southern Germany.

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Dnieper Hydroelectric Station

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (DniproHES), also known as the Dnipro Dam, is a hydroelectric power station in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

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Fascist architecture

Fascist architecture encompasses various stylistic trends in architecture developed by architects of fascist states, primarily in the early 20th century.

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Fascist Italy

Fascist Italy is a term which is used to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator. Gigantomania and Fascist Italy are totalitarianism.

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Führer city

A Führer city, or Führerstadt in German, was a status given to five German cities in 1937 by Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany.

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Five-year plans of the Soviet Union

The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР, Pyatiletniye plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.

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Four Year Plan

The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936.

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Germania (city)

Welthauptstadt Germania or World Capital Germania was the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin during the Nazi period, part of Adolf Hitler's vision for the future of Nazi Germany after the planned victory in World War II.

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Grandiose delusions

Grandiose delusions (GDs), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, are a subtype of delusion characterized by extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful.

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Gulag

The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union.

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)

The time period in China from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 until Mao's death in 1976 is commonly known as Maoist China and Red China.

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History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)

The history of the Soviet Union between 1927 and 1953 covers the period in Soviet history from the establishment of Stalinism through victory in the Second World War and down to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

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Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich (Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Gigantomania and Joseph Stalin are Stalinism.

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Juche

Juche, officially the Juche idea, is the state ideology of North Korea and the official ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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Juche Tower

The Juche Tower (more formally, the Tower of the Juche Idea), completed in 1982, is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and is named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il Sung.

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Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung (born Kim Sung Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as Supreme Leader from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. Afterwards, he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Il and was declared Eternal President. Gigantomania and Kim Il Sung are Stalinism.

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Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun (금수산태양궁전), formerly the Kumsusan Memorial Palace (금수산기념궁전), is a building near the northeast corner of the city of Pyongyang that serves as the mausoleum for Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea, and for his son Kim Jong Il, both posthumously designated as the Eternal leaders of North Korea (Eternal President and Eternal General Secretary, respectively).

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Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte

The Landkreuzer P. 1000 "Ratte" (English: Land Cruiser P. 1000 "Rat") was a design for a 1000-ton tank to be used by Germany during World War II which may have been proposed by Krupp director Edward Grote in June 1942, who had already named it "Landkreuzer" ("Land cruiser").

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Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster

The Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster was a purported German pre-prototype super-heavy self-propelled gun designed during World War II.

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Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk (p) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River.

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Market economy

A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Megalomania

Megalomania is an obsession with power and wealth, and a passion for grand schemes.

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Nampo Dam

The Nampho Dam or West Sea Dam, also known as the West Sea Barrage or West Sea Lock Gate, is a tidal barrage located 15 km west of the special city of Nampho, North Korea.

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Nazi architecture

Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Gigantomania and Nazi Germany are Nazism.

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Nordstern (city)

Nordstern (English: "North Star"), sometimes referred to as Neu Drontheim ("New Trondheim"), was a Nazi plan for the creation of a new metropolis located in German-occupied Norway.

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North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.

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Nuremberg rallies

The Nuremberg rallies (officially, meaning Reich Party Congress) were a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Palace of the Soviets

The Palace of the Soviets (Дворец Советов, Dvorec Sovetov) was a project to construct a political convention center in Moscow on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

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Schwerer Gustav

Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German railway gun.

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A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores.

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A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors.

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Stakhanovite movement

The Stakhanovite movement (stakhánovskoye dvizhéniye) was a mass cultural movement of workers which originated in the Soviet Union, and encouraged socialist emulation and rationalization of workplace processes.

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Stalinist architecture

Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern Bloc as Stalinist style or socialist classicism, is the architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933 (when Boris Iofan's draft for the Palace of the Soviets was officially approved) and 1955 (when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture). Gigantomania and Stalinist architecture are Stalinism.

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Super-heavy tank

A super-heavy tank or super heavy tank is any tank that is notably beyond the standard of the class heavy tank in either size or weight relative to contemporary vehicles.

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The Motherland Calls

The Motherland Calls (Rodina-mat' zovyot!) is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia.

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Totalitarian architecture

Totalitarian architecture is a term utilized to refer to the relationship between totalitarianism and architecture, often (though not always) in the context of alleged "approved styles" of architecture within totalitarian regimes. Gigantomania and totalitarian architecture are totalitarianism.

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Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Victoria Khiterer

Victoria Khiterer (born 1968) is associate professor of history at Millersville University, Pennsylvania, adjunct professor at Gratz College, and a founding member of the Scientific Council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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White Sea–Baltic Canal

The White Sea–Baltic Canal (translit), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) is a man-made ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933.

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Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station

The Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station or Zhigulyovskaya Hydroelectric Station (Zhigulyovskaya GES), formerly known as Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station (Kuybyshev GES) is a large dam and hydroelectric station on the Volga River, located near Zhigulyovsk and Tolyatti in Samara Oblast of Russia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantomania

, The Motherland Calls, Totalitarian architecture, Totalitarianism, University of California Press, Victoria Khiterer, White Sea–Baltic Canal, Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station.

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