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Gigantomania (from Ancient Greek γίγας ''gigas'', "giant" and μανία ''mania'', "madness") is the production of unusually and superfluously large works.〔Khiterer, V. ''Gigantomania''. Gale Encyclopedia of Russian History. ISBN 0028659074〕 Gigantomania was in varying degrees a feature of the political and cultural lives of several totalitarian regimes such as the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.〔 ==Gigantomania in the Soviet Union== The social engineering and modernization efforts in agriculture and industry of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin have been described as gigantomaniac. The creation of extremely large industrial complexes, farms, engineering efforts, buildings and statues was to prove the superiority of the socialist system over capitalism.〔 These projects also aimed for a mass transformation of the Russian peasant society into a proletarian one: massive construction sites, such as Magnitogorsk, also functioned as ideological education centers for the workers or Gulag inmates.〔Paul R. Josephson. (2010). ''Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. p. 75. ISBN 0801894107〕 In addition to massive construction projects, Stalin's gigantomania can be seen in the ideologue of Stakhanovism, which emphasized constantly over-fulfilling production target quotas. Soviet gigantomania continued, albeit with less popularity, after Stalin's death.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gigantomania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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