Author : Albert J. Schmidt
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0871691817
Author : Timothy J. Colton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674587496
Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropolis of nine million people that Boris Yeltsin, during two frustrating years as the city's party boss, began his move away from Communist orthodoxy. Colton charts the general course of events that led to this move, tracing the political and social developments that have given the city its modern character. He shows how the monolith of Soviet power broke down in the process of metropolitan governance, where the constraints of censorship and party oversight could not keep up with proliferating points of view, haphazard integration, and recurrent deviation from approved rules and goals. Everything that goes into making a city - from town planning, housing, and retail services to environmental and architectural concernsfigures in Colton's account of what makes Moscow unique. He shows us how these aspects of the city's organization, and the actions of leaders and elite groups within them, coordinated or conflicted with the overall power structure and policy imperatives of the Soviet Union. Against this background, Colton explores the growth of the anti-Communist revolution in Moscow politics, as well as fledgling attempts to establish democratic institutions and a market economy.
Author : Andreas Schönle
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 150175677X
Despite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia—from Catherine the Great's construction of fake ruins in imperial parks to Josef Brodsky's elegiac meditations—ruins have never achieved the status they enjoy in Western Europe. While the Soviet Union was notorious for leveling churches, post-Soviet Russia has only intensified the practice of massive destruction and reconstruction. Architecture of Oblivion examines the role of ruins in the development of Russia's historical consciousness from the eighteenth century to the present. Investigating the meaning and functions ruins have acquired in Russian culture, Schönle looks at ideological reasons for the current disregard for the value of ruins and historical buildings, in particular by political authorities, and reveals how ruins have often become a site of resistance to official ideology and an invitation to map out alternative visions of history and of statehood. An interdisciplinary study of Russia's response to ruins has never been attempted, although the topic of ruins has garnered considerable interest in Western Europe and in the U.S. This original work from a leading authority on the subject will appeal to historians of Russian culture and thought, literature and art scholars, and general readers interested in ruins.
Author : William Craft Brumfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317973259
A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
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ISBN : 9781422372685
Author : Blair A. Ruble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2001-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521801799
This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.
Author : Catherine Merridale
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0805086803
Drawn on never-before-seen archives and rare collections, this richly woven historical tapestry of the Kremlin, and of the centuries of Russian elites who have shaped it, takes readers behind the blood-red walls of this majestic and enduring fortress.
Author : Alexander M. Martin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0191640700
Imperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia's "window to Europe," whereas Moscow preserved the nation's proud historical traditions. Enlightened Metropolis challenges this myth by exploring how the tsarist regime actually tried to turn Moscow into a bridgehead of Europe in the heartland of Russia. Moscow in the eighteenth century was widely scorned as backward and "Asiatic." The tsars thought it a benighted place that endangered their state's internal security and their effort to make Russia European. Beginning with Catherine the Great, they sought to construct a new Moscow, with European buildings and institutions, a Westernized "middle estate", and a new cultural image as an enlightened metropolis. Drawing on the methodologies of urban, social, institutional, cultural, and intellectual history, Enlightened Metropolis asks: How was the urban environment - buildings, institutions, streets, smells - transformed in the nine decades from Catherine's accession to the death of Nicholas I? How were the lives of the inhabitants changed? Did a "middle estate" come into being? How similar was Moscow's modernization to that of Western cities, and how was it affected by the disastrous occupation by Napoleon? Lastly, how were Moscow and its people imagined by writers, artists, and social commentators in Russia and the West from the Enlightenment to the mid-nineteenth century?
Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521844840
Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.
Author : Predrag Cicovacki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0197625886
"Literature deals with the intrusion of the extraordinary into the ordinary. This intrusion may begin in a work's very first sentence, as in Kafka's The Trial: "Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong." Alternatively, it may be hinted at in the first sentences and more internally oriented, as in Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground: "I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. No, I am not a pleasant man at all. I believe there is something wrong with my liver. However, I don't know a damn thing about my liver; neither do I know whether there is anything really wrong with me." Tolstoy avoids such dramatic openings and introduces the extraordinary into the ordinary by means of storytelling. Literature, he believes, tells us stories about experiences that take us, temporarily or permanently, out of our comfort zone, off well-trodden paths. The story can be simple or complex, funny or tragic, about a small incident or the shattering of one's world. Using an example from Tolstoy's own What is Art?, the story could be about a boy who encounters a wolf in the forest yet manages to run back to the safety of his home to tell the story to his parents, or to anyone who is willing to listen. In War and Peace, the story is about a series of brutal wars that Russia fought against France between 1805 and 1812, in which the Russian troops were pushed to the brink of defeat but eventually managed to overpower Napoleon's invading army and reestablish peace"--
