TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schönle,Andreas
TI  - Architecture of oblivion: ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia 
SN  - 9780875806518 (clothbound : acidfree paper)
AV  - NA2543.S6S36 2011 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - DeKalb
PB  - Northern Illinois University Press
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ruins 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
ER  -