01672cam a22002654a 4500008004100000020004800041020004500089050002200134100002400156245010600180260005800286300003400344504005100378505056100429650004700990650005301037650004701090650005301137650004101190650004701231651003301278651003901311651002501350651003101375110121s2011 ilua b 001 0 eng  a9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper) a0875806511 (clothbound : acidfree paper)00aNA2543.S6S36 20111 aSchönle, Andreas.10aArchitecture of oblivion :bruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia /cAndreas Schönle. aDeKalb :bNorthern Illinois University Press,cc2011. axii, 283 p. :bill. ;c24 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aRuins and modernity in Russian pre-Romanticism -- Lessons of the fire of Moscow in 1812 -- Aesthetics and politics in the Romantic fashion for ruins -- Between erasure and nurture : ruins and the modern city in the depth of times -- Post-revolutionary urban decay : from the return of random beauty to the dystopian loss of self -- The ruins of the blockade of Leningrad and the aesthetic struggle for survival -- Ruin as transition to timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's poetry -- The ruin as alternative reality : paper architects and the vitality of decay. 0aArchitecture and societyzRussiaxHistory. 0aArchitecture and societyzSoviet UnionxHistory. 0aArchitecturezRussiaxAestheticsxHistory. 0aArchitecturezSoviet UnionxAestheticsxHistory. 0aCity and town lifezRussiaxHistory. 0aCity and town lifezSoviet UnionxHistory. 0aRussiaxHistoryxPhilosophy. 0aSoviet UnionxHistoryxPhilosophy. 0aRussiaxAntiquities. 0aSoviet UnionxAntiquities.