Architectures of Russian identity
Subtitle: 1500 to the present
By: edited by James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland
Contributors: Cracraft, James; Rowland, Daniel B. 1941-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Architecture -- Russia (Federation); Architecture, Modern
Description: Across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity and power. In this book, authors from disciplines including architectural history, linguistics and geography survey the political and symbolic meanings of many kinds of structures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-244) and index
Table of contents: title: Peter the Great and the problem of periodization / James Cracraft; title: The throne of Monomakh : Ivan the Terrible and the architectonics of destiny / Michael S. Flier; title: Architecture and dynasty : Boris Godunov's uses of architecture, 1584-1606 / Daniel Rowland; title: Catherine the Great's field of dreams : architecture and landscape in the Russian Enlightenment / Dimitri Shvidkovsky; title: Russian estate architecture and noble identity / Priscilla Roosevelt; title: The picturesque and the holy : visions of touristic space in Russia, 1820-1850 / Christopher Ely; title: Constructing the Russian other : Viollet-le-Duc and the politics of an Asiatic past / Lauren M. O'Connell; title: The "Russian style" in church architecture as imperial symbol after 1881 / Richard Wortman; title: Civilization in the city : architecture, urbanism, and the colonization of Tashkent / Robert D. Crews; title: Stalinist modern : constructivism and the Soviet company town / Greg Castillo; title: The greening of utopia : nature, social vision, and landscape art in Stalinist Russia / Mark Bassin; title: The rise and fall of Stalinist architecture / Andrew Day; title: Conflict over designing a monument to Stalin's victims : public art and political ideology in Russia, 1987-1996 / Kathleen E. Smith; title: Architecture, urban space, and post-Soviet Russian identity / Blair A. Ruble