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Reshaping Russian Architecture examines the development of twentieth-century Russian architecture as it relates to the transformation of the imperial Russia into an industrialized Soviet empire and shows how Western notions of style and technology were assimilated on a massive scale into a uniquely Russian vision. Among the issues examined in articles by four distinguished historians of architecture and urban planning are: the decline of imperial architectural design during the mid-nineteenth century as occasioned by fundamental changes in aesthetic values and the social structure; the denouncement of the European capitalist economic system and consequent rejection of modern urban architecture during the period immediately prior to the 1917 revolution; and utopian concepts of modern urban design that were implemented during the interwar years of phenomenal industrial development. An important contribution to our understanding of Russian and Soviet culture in a critical period of its evolution, Reshaping Russian Architecture will also appeal to those interested in modern architecture and urban planning in general.
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List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editor's note
Introduction WILLIAM C. BRUMFIELD
1. From Palace Square to Moscow Square: St
Petersburg's century-long retreat from
public space BLAIR A. RUBLE
2. Russian perceptions of American
architecture, 1870-1917 WILLIAM C. BRUMFIELD
3. Architectural design in Moscow, 1890-1917:
innovation and retrospection WILLIAM C.
BRUMFIELD
4. Moscow's revolutionary architecture and its
aftermath: a critical guide BLAIR A. RUBLE
5. The realization of Utopia
Western technology and Soviet avant-garde
architecture MILKA BLIZNAKOV
6. Foreign architects in the Soviet Union
during the first two five-Year Plans MANATOLE
KOPP
About the authors
Index.
