Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Illustration List ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 1-Ruins and Modernity in Russian Pre- Romanticism 29
7. 2-Lessons of the Fire of Moscow in 1812 46
8. 3-Aesthetics and Politics in the Romantic Fashion for Ruins 73
9. 4 -Between Erasure and Nurture-Ruins and the Modern City in the Depth of Times 106
10. 5-Post-Revolutionary Urban Decay-From the Return of Random Beauty to the Dystopian Loss of Self 132
11. 6-The Ruins of the Blockade of Leningrad and the Aesthetic Struggle for Survival 152
12. 7-Ruin as Transition to Timelessness in Joseph Brodsky's Poetry 183
13. 8-The Ruin as Alternative Reality-Paper Architects and the Vitality of Decay 194
14. CONCLUSION 219
15. Notes 231
16. Index 273