In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. Katherine Zubovich draws on original archival research to explore how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital, describing the actions of Soviet elites and the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project. Showing how the Stalin-era quest for monumentalism was rooted in the Soviet Union's engagement with Western trends in architecture and planning, Moscow Monumental takes readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.