The 14 essays of this volume were presented in earlier form at a conference that may have been held at the U.
of Illinois, Chicago (where Cracraft teaches history) under the aegis of the Social Science Research Council of
New York (the conference's date and location are not specified). The contributors, who are based mainly in the
US, bring specialties in history, cultural geography, Ukrainian philology, art history, government, and urban studies
to questions of Russian use of architecture to convey meaning and identity. Some of the broader themes include
landscape, Stalinist architecture, public art, tourism, and imperialism.
Table of Contents
1. Peter the Great and the Problem of Periodization
Pt. I Muscovite Russia
2. The Throne of Monomakh: Ivan the Terrible and the Architectonics of Destiny
3. Architecture and Dynasty: Boris Godunov's Uses of Architecture, 1584-1606
Pt. II Imperial Russia
4. Catherine the Great's Field of Dreams: Architecture and Landscape in the Russian Enlightenment
5. Russian Estate Architecture and Noble Identity
6. The Picturesque and the Holy: Visions of Touristic Space in Russia, 1820-1850
7. Constructing the Russian Other: Viollet-le-Duc and the Politics of an Asiatic Past
8. The "Russian Style" in Church Architecture as Imperial Symbol after 1881
9. Civilization in the City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Colonization of Tashkent
Pt. III Soviet Russia
10. Stalinist Modern: Constructivism and the Soviet Company Town
11. The Greening of Utopia: Nature, Social Vision, and Landscape Art in Stalinist Russia
12. The Rise and Fall of Stalinist Architecture
Pt. IV Post-Soviet Russia
13. Conflict over Designing a Monument to Stalin's Victims: Public Art and Political Ideology in Russia, 1987-1996
14. Architecture, Urban Space, and Post-Soviet Russian Identity
