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  • ‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania

    ‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania

    Socialist Albania was made by modernisation, and a political pursuit of its aesthetic and sociological derivatives. Enver Hoxha sought to transform Albania into a self-conscious nation-state via the transformation of the physical landscape. This was done according to contemporary discourses connecting modernity and architecture and informed by the acute sense of vulnerability that defined Hoxha’s…