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Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present

Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Cracraft, James (Ed.); Rowland, Daniel (Ed.)

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Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10" X 7". vii, 253pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Faint toning to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to inside of front cover. Stamp from Kennedy Book Store to half-title page. Occasional highlighting to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl-across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national cohesion and justified political control while representing the claims of religion in brick, wood, and stone. The architectural vocabulary of the Soviet state celebrated industrialization, mechanization, and communal life. Buildings and landscapes have expressed utopian urges as well as lofty spiritual goals. Country houses and memorials have encoded their own messages. In Architectures of Russian Identity, James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland gather a group of authors from a wide variety of backgrounds-including history and architectural history, linguistics, literary studies, geography, and political science-to survey the political and symbolic meanings of many different kinds of structures. Fourteen heavily illustrated chapters demonstrate the remarkable fertility of the theme of architecture, broadly defined, for a range of fields dealing with Russia and its surrounding territories. The authors engage key terms in contemporary historiography-identity, nationality, visual culture-and assess the applications of each in Russian contexts.(Publisher).
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  • Title Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present
  • Author Cracraft, James (Ed.); Rowland, Daniel (Ed.)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good +
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8554
  • ISBN 9780801488283 / 0801488281
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.12 x 7.06 x 0.69 in (25.70 x 17.93 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture, Modern, Architecture - Russia (Federation)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002154780
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.947

From the publisher

From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl--across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national cohesion and justified political control while representing the claims of religion in brick, wood, and stone. The architectural vocabulary of the Soviet state celebrated industrialization, mechanization, and communal life. Buildings and landscapes have expressed utopian urges as well as lofty spiritual goals. Country houses and memorials have encoded their own messages. In Architectures of Russian Identity, James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland gather a group of authors from a wide variety of backgrounds--including history and architectural history, linguistics, literary studies, geography, and political science--to survey the political and symbolic meanings of many different kinds of structures. Fourteen heavily illustrated chapters demonstrate the remarkable fertility of the theme of architecture, broadly defined, for a range of fields dealing with Russia and its surrounding territories. The authors engage key terms in contemporary historiography--identity, nationality, visual culture--and assess the applications of each in Russian contexts.

About the author

James Cracraft is Professor of History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His books include The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture. Daniel Rowland is Director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities at the University of Kentucky and has published extensively on early modern Russian political culture.

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