Architectures of Russia / the Soviet Union: General resources

*Note: Russian Federation Republics of the Northern Caucasus include: Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia-Alania, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Krasnodar Krai (territory), and Stavropol Krai (territory).

“Citadel, ancient city and fortress buildings of Derbent,” (UNESCO)

Olivier, Paul (editor), Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2 (See “Caucasus, North and Dagestan,” p.1424- 1433)

“Rica Studio*: Villa in Sochi Forest, Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia,” GA Houses, March 2016, p.154-156

“Vainakh tower architecture,” Wikipedia, edited 17 May 2019, retrieved 30 May 2019 (via wikipedia.org)

Akinsha, Konstantin, The holy place : architecture, ideology, and history in Russia, Yale University Press, 2007 (via Proquest Ebook Central)

Brumfield, William Craft, “The development of medieval church architecture in the Vologda region of the Russian north,” Architectural History, 1997, Vol. 40, p.64-80 (via Jstor)

Brumfield, William Craft, A history of Russian architecture, Cambridge University Press, NA1181.B72 1993

Crepax, Margherita, “Churches in Mother Russia,” Abitare, December 2005, p.138-[143]

Fedorov, Sergey G., “Early iron domed roofs in Russian church architecture: 1800-1840,” Construction History, 1996, Vol.12, p.41-66 (via Jstor)

Köllner, Tobias, “Works of penance: new churches in post-Soviet Russia,” in Religious architecture: anthropological perspectives, edited by Oskar Verkaaik, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, p.83-98 (Jstor)

Buchli, Victor, “Moisei Ginzburg’s Narkomfin Communal House in Moscow: contesting the social and material world,” JSAH, June 1998, p.160-181 (via Jstor)

Fabbri, Andrea, “Interiors in Gogolevsky Boulevard [Moscow, Russia],” Abitare, December 2006, p.78-87

Gurgenidze, Tinatin (editor), Eastern block stories : visualising large housing estates from post-socialist cities, Dom Publishers, HT169.57.F6 E27 2021

Varga-Harris, Christine, Stories of house and home: Soviet apartment life during the Khrushchev years, Cornell University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Buxton, David (editor), The wooden architecture of Russia: houses, fortifications, churches, H. N. Abrams, NA1181 .O66 1989

Crepax, Margherita, “Churches in Mother Russia,” Abitare, December 2005, p.138-[143]

Olivier, Paul (editor), Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, NA208.E53 1997 v.2 (See “Russia," p.1403-1419, and "Caucasus, North and Dagestan,” p.1424- 1433)

Savinëtìsev, Fedor, Dacha : the Soviet country cottage, FUEL, NA7367 .S28 2023

Voyce, Arthur, “National elements in Russian architecture,” JSAH, May 1957, p.6-16 (via Jstor)

William Brumfield Russian Architecture Digital Collection, University of Washington Libraries (29,000 images of Russian buildings constructed from the Middle Ages to 21st century, photographed between 1970 and 2008 by Professor William Craft Brumfield of Tulane University.)

Buxton, David Roden, Russian mediaeval architecture: with an account of the Transcaucasian styles and their influence in the West, Cambridge University Press, NA1183 .B8 2014

Brumfield, William Craft, “The development of medieval church architecture in the Vologda region of the Russian north,” Architectural History, 1997, Vol. 40, p.64-80 (via Jstor)

Brumfield, William Craft, A history of Russian architecture, Cambridge University Press, NA1181.B72 1993 (See: “Part III: The turn to western forms,” chapters 8-12)

Cracraft, James, The Petrine revolution in Russian architecture, University of Chicago Press, NA1186 .C73 1988

Cuppini, Giampiero, et al, Gli architetti italiani a San Pietroburgo, Grafis, NA2706.R6 A73 1996

Korzun, Alla, “The Irkutsk temples. Cultural phenomenon of ‘Siberian Baroque’,” Project Baikal (Russia), 2014, #41, p.114-123 (in Russian with summary in English; PDF via ResearchGate)

Brumfield, William Craft, A history of Russian architecture, Cambridge University Press, NA1181.B72 1993 (See "Part IV: The formation of modern Russian architecture”)

Brumfield, William Craft, “Anti-Modernism and the Neoclassical revival in Russian architecture, 1906-1916,” JSAH, December 1989, p.371-386 (via Jstor)

Fedorov, Sergey G., “Early iron domed roofs in Russian church architecture: 1800-1840,” Construction History, 1996, Vol.12, p.41-66 (via Jstor)

Brumfield, William Craft, The origins of modernism in Russian architecture, University of California Press, NA1187 .B78 1991

Ruble, Blair A., et al, Architecture and the new urban environment: Western influences on modernism in Russia and the USSR, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, NA1184 .A73 1988

Jenkins, Jessica, “Building the revolution: Soviet art and architecture, 1915-1935,” Design Issues, Autumn 2012, p.86-92 (via Jstor)

Shtiglits, Margarita & Anna Vallye, “Erich Mendelsohn’s Red Banner Factory and Saint Petersburg’s industrial architecture,” Future Anterior, Summer 2008, p.28-37 (via Jstor)

Vronskaya, Alla, Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S35 V76 2022

Adjoubel, Xenia, “Ruins of utopia,” Architectural Review, April 2013, p.88-93

Buchli, Victor, “Moisei Ginzburg’s Narkomfin Communal House in Moscow: contesting the social and material world,” JSAH, June 1998, p.160-181 (via Jstor)

Cooke, Catherine, Fantasy and construction, Architectural Design [publisher], NA1199 .C4 C66

Cooke, Catherine (editor), Russian Avant-garde art and architecture, Academy Editions, N6988.5 .C64 R83 1983

“The forest and the cell: notes on Mosej Ginzburg’s Green City,” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring / Summer 2018, p.18-26

Kirikov, Boris, “The Leningrad avant-garde and its legacy,” Future Anterior, Summer 2008, p.16-26 (via Jstor)

Komonen, Markku, Revolution in architecture: exhibition, 9.8-29.9.1985, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo, NA1199.V4 A4 1985

Shvidkovsky, O. A., (editor), Building in the USSR, 1917-1932, Praeger, NA1188.5.C64 B84

Zaikina, Olga, “Yekaterinburg nights,” AA Files, 2012, #65, p.134-137 (via Jstor)

Brumfield, William C. & Blair A. Ruble, Russian housing in the modern age: design and social history, Cambridge University Press, NA7367 .R88 1993

Fabbri, Andrea, “Interiors in Gogolevsky Boulevard [Moscow, Russia],” Abitare, December 2006, p.78-87

Neimark, Anna, “The infrastructural monument: Stalin’s water works under construction and in representation,” Future Anterior, Winter 2012, p.1-14 (via Jstor)

Tarkhanov, Alexei, et al, Architecture of the Stalin era, Rizzoli, NA1188 .T36 1992

Udovicki-Selb, Danilo, “Between Modernism and Socialist Realism: Soviet architectural culture under Stalin’s Revolution from above, 1928-1938,” JSAH, 2009, Vol.68, #4, p.467-495 (via Jstor)

William Brumfield Russian Architecture Digital Collection, University of Washington Libraries (29,000 images of Russian buildings constructed from the Middle Ages to 21st century, photographed between 1970 and 2008 by Professor William Craft Brumfield of Tulane University.)

Ritter, Katharina, et al, Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: unknown history, Park [publisher], NA1188.S656 2012

Vronskaya, Alla, Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences, University of Minnesota Press, NA2543.S35 V76 2022

Weizman, Ines, “Dissidence through architecture,” Perspecta, 2012, Vol.45, p.27-38 (via Jstor)

Buck-Morss, Susan, “Theorizing today: the post-Soviet condition,” Log, 2008, #11, p.23-31 (via Jstor)

Chipova, Irina, Moscow: architecture & design, Te Neues, NA1197.M6 C457 2007

Köllner, Tobias, “Works of penance: new churches in post-Soviet Russia,” in Religious architecture: anthropological perspectives, edited by Oskar Verkaaik, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, p.83-98 (Jstor)

Gough, Maria, “Model exhibition,” October, Fall 2014, # 150, p.9-26 (Reconstructions of the Monument to the Third International, 1920)

Ikonnikov, A., Soviet architecture of today: 1960s-early 1970s, Aurora Art Publishers, NA1188 .S6813 [1975]

Johnson, Philip & Mark Wigley, Deconstructivist architecture: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Little, Brown, NA682.D43 J6 1988

Khan-Magomedov, S. O., Pioneers of Soviet architecture: the search for new solutions in the 1920s and 1930s, Rizzoli, NA1188 .K4713 1987

Murrell, Kathleen Berton, Moscow art nouveau, Philip Wilson Publishers, NA1188.5 .A7 M87 1997

Process Architecture 054: Contemporary Soviet Architecture, NA6.P94 #054

Riabushin, A. V., Landmarks of Soviet architecture, 1917-1991, Rizzoli, NA1188 .R48 1992

Shvidkovsky, Dmitry, et al, “Moscow architecture in 1997: trade, power and the ‘new Russians’,” AA Files, Summer 1997, p.3-12 (via Jstor)

Chipova, Irina, Moscow: architecture & design, Te Neues, NA1197.M6 C457 2007

“[Moscow],” Abitare, November 2004 (Theme issue)

Sitar, Sergei & Eugen Asse, “Alexander Brodsky: the beginning of movement,” Domus, October 2006, p.[82]-[91] (On 4 individual projects)

Jenkins, Jessica, “Building the revolution: Soviet art and architecture, 1915-1935,” Design Issues, Autumn 2012, p.86-92 (via Jstor)

Goldhoom, Bart & Alexander Sverdlov, “Microrayon: transformation of the Soviet city under capitalism,” Volume, 2009, #21, p.14-18, 38-41

Novikov, Feliks, Behind the Iron Curtain: a confession of a Soviet architect, DOM Publishers, NA1188 .N64513 2016

Schönle, Andreas, Architecture of oblivion: ruins and historical consciousness in modern Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Varga-Harris, Christine, Stories of house and home: Soviet apartment life during the Khrushchev years, Cornell University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Zaikina, Olga, “Yekaterinburg nights,” AA Files, 2012, #65, 124-133

Ignatieva, Maria, et al, “History and restoration of the St. Petersburg summer garden,” Garden History, Winter 2015, p.199-217 (via Jstor)

Maddox, Steven, Saving Stalin’s imperial city: historic preservation in Leningrad, 1930-1950, Indiana University Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Merrick, Jay, “Stanislavsky creates: new method,” Topos, 2013, #83, p.37-42 (On Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, adaptive reuse)

“Preservation of Soviet heritage,” Future Anterior, Summer 2008 (Special issue)

Shaw, Charles, “The Gur-I Amir Mausoleum and the Soviet politics of preservation,” Future Anterior, Summer 2011, p.43-63 (via Jstor)

Chumachenko, T. A., Church and state in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev years, Routledge, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Knox, Zoe Katrina, Russian society and the orthodox church: religion in Russia after communism, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Michelson, Patrik & Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (editors), Thinking Orthodox in modern Russia: culture, history, context, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Sevcenko, Ihor, “The Christianization of Kievan Rus’,” The Polish Review, Autumn 1960, p.29-35 (via Jstor)

Wynot, Jennifer Jean, Keeping the faith: Russian orthodox monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939, Texas A & M University Press, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Blumenfeld, Hans, “Russian city planning of the 18^th and early 19^th centuries,” JASAH, January 1944, p.22-33 (via Jstor)

D’Hooghe, Alexander, “Siberia as analogous territory: Soviet planning and the development of science towns,” Winter 2005, p.14-27 (via Jstor)

Firebrace, William, “Location Konigsberg-Kaliningrad,” AA Files, 2017, #74, p.39-58 (via Jstor)

“The forest and the cell: notes on Mosej Ginzburg’s Green City,” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring / Summer 2018, p.18-26

Kopp, Anatole, Town and revolution: Soviet architecture and city planning, 1917-1935, G. Braziller, NA1188 .K613 1970

Nefedov, Valery, “Development of St. Petersburg: contemporary projects in a deeply historic city,” Topos, 2008, #64, p.56-61

Ometev, Boris, St. Petersburg: portrait of an imperial city, Vendome Press, DK557 .O44 1990

Shkvarikov, V. A. (editor), Moskva; planirovka i zastroæika goroda, 1945-1957, Moscow State, NA9212.M6 A7 (Oversize)

Zadorin, Dimitrij, “Microrayon handbook [Soviet Union],” Volume, 2009, #27, p.27, 29, 31, 33, 35

Craig, Campbell, The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War, Yale University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Dukes, Paul, The superpowers: a short history, Routledge, 2001 (via Ebook Central)

Enderle-Burcell, Gertrude, et al (editors), Gaps in the Iron Curtain: economic relations between neutral and socialist countries in Cold War Europe, Jagiellonian University Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Graham, Thomas, Spy satellites: and other intelligence technologies that changed history, University of Washington Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Haslam, Jonathan, Russia’s Cold War: from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall, Yale University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Tolstrup, Jakob, Russia vs. the EU: the competition for influence in post-Soviet states, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Barnett, Vincent, A history of economic thought, Routledge, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Barnett, Vincent & Joachim Zweynert (editors), Economics in Russia: studies in intellectual history, Ashgate, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Belova, Eugenia & Valery Lazarev, Funding loyalty: the economics of the Communist Party, Yale University Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Gregory, Paul R. & Valery Lazarev (editors), The economics of forced labor: the Soviet Gulag, Hoover Institute Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Hoffman, David E., The oligarchs: wealth and power in the new Russia, Public Affairs, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Mukhina, Irina, Women and the birth of Russian capitalism: a history of the shuttle trade, NIU Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Avrutin, Eugene M. & Harriet Murav, Jews in the East European borderlands, Academic Studies Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Clark, Katerina, Moscow, the fourth Rome: Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941, Harvard University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Olson, Laura J., Performing Russia: folk revival and Russian identity, Routledge, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Olson, Laura J. & Svetlana Adonyeva, The worlds of Russian village women: tradition, transgression, compromise, University of Wisconsin, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Propp, Vladimir Yakovlevich, The Russian folktale, Wayne State University Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Risch, William Jay (editor), Youth and rock in the Soviet bloc: youth cultures, music, and the state in Russia and Eastern Europe, Lexington Books, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Tsipursky, Gleb, Socialist fun: youth, consumption, and state-sponsored popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Zallen, Doris & Joy Gleason Carew, Blacks, Reds, and Russians: sojourners in search of the Soviet promise, Rutgers University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Arad, Yitzhak, The holocaust in the Soviet Union, University of Nebraska Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Borzęcki, Jerzy, The Soviet-Polish peace of 1921 and the creation of interwar Europe, Yale University Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Epstein, Barbara Leslie, The Minsk ghetto, 1941 / 1943: Jewish resistance and Soviet internationalism, University of California Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Kellogg, Michael, The Russian roots of Nazism: white emigres and the making of National Socialism, 1917-1945, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Burbank, Jane, et al (editors), Russian empire: space, people, power, 1700-1930, Indiana University Press, 2007 (via Ebook Central)

Holmes, Larry E., Grand theater: regional governance in Stalin’s Russia, 1931-1941, Lexington Books, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Kozlov, V. A., et al (editors), Sedition: everyday resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Yale University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Ree, Erik van, The political thought of Joseph Stalin: a study in twentieth century revolutionary patriotism, RoutledgeCurzon, 2002 (via Ebook Central)

Slezkine, Yuri, The house of government: a saga of the Russian Revolution, Princeton University Press, DK601 .S57 2017

Thomsen, William, The Soviet Union under Brezhnev, Routledge, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Clowes, Edith W., Russia on the edge: imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity, Cornell University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)  

Robinson, Neil, et al (editors), The political economy of Russia, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012 (via Ebook Central)

Tolstrup, Jakob, Russia vs. the EU: the competition for influence in post-Soviet states, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

Zasoursky, Ivan, Media and power in post-Soviet Russia, Routledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)

Heinich, Nadin, “How to survive in Moscow,” Topos, 2016, #94, p.48-55

Merrick, Jay, “Stanislavsky creates: new method,” Topos, 2013, #83, p.37-42 (On Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, adaptive reuse)

Zacks, Stephen, “Soft power in Moscow,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 2018, p.160-171 (On Zaryadye Park)

Bely, Andrey, St. Petersburg, Grove Press, PG3453.B84 P52 1959

Beumers, Birgit (editor), World film locations: Moscow, Intellect, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

Kaganov, Grigory, Images of space: St. Petersburg in the visual and verbal arts, Stanford University Press, N8214.5.R9 K3413 1997

Meuser, Philipp, Galina Balashova : architect of the Soviet space programme, DOM Publishers, TL875 .M4813 2022

Zukowsky, John, 2001 : building for space travel, Harry N. Abrams, TL4015 .A15 2001