Moscow Under Construction

Author : Robert Argenbright
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498522033
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow under Construction written by Robert Argenbright and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in city’s governance regime. The groups of citizens discussed in this study have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic districts, and in the process they’ve built up civil society and advanced democratization. Heritage preservationists and other aggrieved Muscovites have organized themselves into “initiative groups” and “social associations” to protect specific places in the city and to influence the planning process, and these place-defenders have become more confident and capable as citizens. Their activities also have caused Moscow’s city government to shift along the political spectrum away from highly authoritarian and opaque habits of ruling toward a more open and collaborative governance regime.

Author : Katherine Zubovich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202729
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow Monumental written by Katherine Zubovich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

Author : David W. Robinson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786484195
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Construction written by David W. Robinson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowded within the insular world of 1988 East Berlin, their lives conducted amid the cracks in the German Democratic Republic's approved social vision, the nine subjects interviewed in this book formed a loose social network. Ten years later and in a different German state, the stories they tell restore subjective experience to our historical grasp of communism and its collapse. The interviewees include Otto Emersleben, Frank Hornigk, Ljuba Kirjuchina, Bernd Wedel, Heike Wedel, Peter Graetz, Christoph Hein, Gerlinde Salomon and Thomas Braun. This work preserves the English expressions verbatim and indicates them with bold-face type. German expressions of particular interest are retained in the text and indicated by italics. At the end of the book there is a comprehensive glossary that includes explanations of geographic, biographical, and historical references made by the interviewees.

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888174
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Government written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Author : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Publisher : Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Michigan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semiotics of Russian Culture written by Юрий Михайлович Лотман and published by Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Michigan. This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham H.J. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317936329
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Culture, Branding and Identity in the New Russia written by Graham H.J. Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As shopping has been transformed from a chore into a major source of hedonistic pleasure, a specifically Russian consumer culture has begun to emerge that is unlike any other. This book examines the many different facets of consumption in today’s Russia, including retailing, advertising and social networking. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the inherently visual - not to say spectacular - nature both of consumption generally, and of Russian consumer culture in particular. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which brands, both Russian and foreign, construct categories of identity in order to claim legitimacy for themselves. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how consumer culture is being reinvented in Russia today, in a society which has one, nostalgic eye turned towards the past, and the other, utopian eye, set firmly on the future. Borrowing concepts from both marketing and cultural studies, the approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and will be of considerable interest, to researchers, students and practitioners wishing to gain invaluable insights into one of the most lucrative, and exciting, of today’s emerging markets.

Author : Katerina Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674062892
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow, the Fourth Rome written by Katerina Clark and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1438740476
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Economic & Development Strategy Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Programs written by IBP USA and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
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Download or read book USSR Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Bulletin written by Soviet Union. Posolʹstvo (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: