ABSTRACT
Place, modernity and the Communist Project have their fullest expression in the idea and practices of the Party-state. The experience of communist modernity was most sharply defined by the building of socialism in the production of the state as a socialist place. This chapter first discusses state boundary changes and migratory movements following the Second World War. It then follows national development strategies, assessing the possibilities of the Stalinist model of development for the states of Eastern Europe. The movement away from the Stalinist model is presented as the dynamism of development in communist modernity. This dynamism articulated the experience of building socialism in the separate states producing distinct places. Attention is then focused on regional development.
