Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. city in Russian culture: space, culture, and the Russian city / Stephen M. Norris
  • pt. I constructed city
  • 2. city as legible sanctuary: Siberia's city on a hill: Tobol'sk at the apogee of empire / Mark A. Soderstrom
  • 3. city as a site of urban vision: serf village, industrial town: the creation of Ivanovo-Voznesensk / Alison K. Smith
  • 4. city as translocal space: "Malorossians Have Come!" Ukrainian musicale and the making of the Russian imperial city in the Middle Volga / Ilya Gerasimov
  • 5. city as a work of monumental culture: the hero-city of Novorossiisk as a site of war myth and memory / Vicky Davis
  • 6. city as showpiece: Arctic camp, Arctic city: the Gulag and the construction of Vorkuta / Alan Barenberg
  • 7. city as genuine place: the paradoxes of Soviet urbanization: the search for the genuine Soviet city / Milyausha Zakirova
  • pt. II represented city
  • 8. city as narrated space: spatial practices and the narrative of the Russian city / Pavel Lyssakov
  • 9. city as imagined home: journeys through the socialist city and inside the socialist apartment: space and place in the Moscow text of Soviet film / Stephen M. Norris
  • 10. city as created text: writing from the ruins of Europe: representing Kaliningrad in Russian literature from Brodsky to Buida / Uilleam Blacker
  • 11. city as imaginary landscape: the geo-cultural images of Sortavala: poetics of place in the North Ladoga region / Alexander Izotov
  • 12. city as gendered space: the rise and fall of the creative capitals: female directors on post-Soviet urban space / Arlene Forman.