Of the many government driven cultural changes nations around the globe throughout history have seen there usually lays a singular defining method of doing so. Sporting events, artistic projects, and other such facets of a culture prove extremely useful in setting a nation down the path it wishes to take. Within the Marxist-Leninist world of the Soviet Union, art played a pivotal role in doing so; specifically, socialist-realist art. Socialist-realism’s emergence into the Soviet art world manifested in several different forms, but which of these forms provided the bedrock for representing Socialist progression and advancement is the question in mind. Katerina Clark’s “Socialist-Realism and The Sacralizing of Space” tackles this question providing sound rhetoric to support her answer. Although socialist-realist literature was able to embody many of the important aspects of Soviet society with the use of the hero and his/her actions defining the highest Soviet values and beliefs, it was socialist-realist architecture that was at the forefront of the Soviet machine. She clearly establishes the temporal status and location of the Soviet Union in relation to the broad picture of Socialist longevity. By doing so she is able to demonstrate why architecture was so vital in the socialist realist impact on developing the Soviet Union. This is a very sound approach to this argument and the one I find the most intriguing. Clark states how the “iconoclastic” phase of the Leninist-Marxist development of Soviet society had already been established with the “building” phase next to complete. This need to now take the established values and culture implemented by Marx and Lenin and construct the nation in such a way is what made socialist realist architecture the “quintessential” element. Figuratively, building the nation was necessary and it only made sense that architecture, the art of using materials to build, was the way in which they were going accomplish the Socialist utopia that the Soviet Union would hopefully protract for an indefinite and limitless future.