TY - BOOK AU - Schönle,Andreas TI - Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia T2 - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies SN - 9781609090203 AV - NA2543.S6 -- .S36 2011eb U1 - 720.947 PY - 2011/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Architecture and society -- Russia -- History KW - Architecture and society -- Soviet Union -- History KW - Architecture -- Russia -- Aesthetics -- History KW - Architecture -- Soviet Union -- Aesthetics -- History KW - City and town life -- Russia -- History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Architecture of Oblivion" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3382566 ER -