Schönle, Andreas. <br/><br/>
Architecture of Oblivion :  Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (297 pages) 
 - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies .
 - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies .
<br/><br/>Cover -- ARCHITECTURE OF OBLIVION -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Illustration List -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1-Ruins and Modernity in Russian Pre- Romanticism -- 2-Lessons of the Fire of Moscow in 1812 -- 3-Aesthetics and Politics in the Romantic Fashion for Ruins -- 4-Between Erasure and Nurture-Ruins and the Modern City in the Depth of Times -- 5-Post-Revolutionary Urban Decay-From the Return of Random Beauty to the Dystopian Loss of Self -- 6-The Ruins of the Blockade of Leningrad and the Aesthetic Struggle for Survival -- 7-Ruin as Transition to Timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry -- 8-The Ruin as Alternative Reality-Paper Architects and the Vitality of Decay 194 -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781609090203 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture and society -- Russia -- History.<br/>Architecture and society -- Soviet Union -- History.<br/>Architecture -- Russia -- Aesthetics -- History.<br/>Architecture -- Soviet Union -- Aesthetics -- History.<br/>City and town life -- Russia -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2543.S6 -- .S36 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.947