Russian cities 15 years after : Economy, population and urban sprawl in St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Saint-Pétersboug, Saint Petersburg, développement urbain, étalement urbain, économie, histoire urbaine, post-soviet city, ville post-soviétique, population, Maslennikov Nikita, Russia, Russie
<div>Nikita Maslennikov discusses the developments in Russian cities, particularly St. Petersburg, in the 15 years following the fall of the Soviet Union. He discusses such topics as the economy, population and urban sprawl, comparing St. Petersburg in 2008 to how it was conceived and how it developed over time.</div>
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<b>Nikita Maslennikov </b>is a Professor in the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.</div>
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Nikita Maslennikov
5 September 2008
http://aap.cornell.edu/crp/resources/colloquia/index.cfm?semester=Fall%202008
Urban spaces after socialism: Ethnographies of public places in Eurasian cities
, ethnologie, espace public, post-Soviet city, ville post-soviétique, Tashkent, Tachkent, Yerevan, Erevan, Gumri, Gyumri, St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, Tbilisi, Tbilissi, Baku, Bakou, Osh, Och, Darieva Tsypylma, Kaschuba Wolfgang, Krebs Melanie
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Campus Verlag The University of Chicago Press (distributor)
December 2011
330
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Petersburg fin de siècle
St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, fin de siècle, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, histoire urbaine, Steinberg Mark D.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.<br /> <br /> Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examines the work of writers of all kinds, from anonymous journalists to well-known public intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They grappled with the impact of technological and material progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker perspective on the history of St. Petersburg on the eve of revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia's experience of modernity.<br /> <br /> <b>Mark Steinberg</b> is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of the journal Slavic Review.</div> </div>
Mark D. Steinberg
Yale University Press
September 2011
416
Ouvrage
Petersburg / Petersburg : Novel and city, 1900 - 1921
Petersburg, Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, Saint Petersburg, Bely Andrei, Biély Andreï, Bély André, littérature, twentieth century, vigtième siècle, Matich Olga
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Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the aristocratic center to the gritty outskirts. While Tsar Peter the Great planned the streetscapes of Russia’s northern capital as a contrast to the muddy and crooked streets of Moscow, Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1916), a cornerstone of Russian modernism and the culmination of the “Petersburg myth” in Russian culture, takes issue with the city’s premeditated and supposedly rational character in the early twentieth century.<br />
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“Petersburg”/Petersburg studies the book and the city against and through each other. It begins with new readings of the novel—as a detective story inspired by bomb-throwing terrorists, as a representation of the aversive emotion of disgust, and as a painterly avant-garde text—stressing the novel’s phantasmagoric and apocalyptic vision of the city. Taking a cue from Petersburg’s narrator, the rest of this volume (and the companion Web site, stpetersburg.berkeley.edu) explores the city from vantage points that have not been considered before—from its streetcars and iconic art-nouveau office buildings to the slaughterhouse on the city fringes. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges as a living organism, a dreamworld in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism.</div>
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<b>Olga Matich </b>is professor of Russian literature and culture at the University of California, Berkeley.</div>
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The University of Wisconsin Press
November 2010
320
Ouvrage