Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

An examination of the development of twentieth-century Russian architecture as it relates to the transformation of the imperial Russia into an industrialised Soviet empire, this book shows how Western notions of style and technology were assimilated on a massive scale into a uniquely Russian vision. Among the issues considered are the decline of imperial architectural design during the mid-nineteenth century as occasioned by fundamental changes in aesthetic values and the social structure; the denouncement of the European capitalist economic system and consequent rejection of modern urban architecture during the period immediately prior to the 1917 revolution; and utopian concepts of modernurban design that were implemented during the interwar years of phenomenal industrial development.Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams (Woodrow Wilson Center Press), was published 1990 under ISBN 9780521394185 and ISBN 052139418X.