Soviet mass housing is a contradictory but unique phenomenon. It is usually blamed for creating the most monotonous built environment in the history of mankind, thus constituting a symbol of individual suppression and dejection. The construction programme launched in the post-Stalinist era was the largest undertaken in modern architectural history worldwide. At the same time, S...(展开全部)

讲述前苏联的一个工业城市Magnitogorsk 在戈尔巴乔夫时期的改革经历、镇痛。作者是美国人，主要以他几次访问苏联的经历为主要线索

讲述前苏联的一个工业城市Magnitogorsk 在戈尔巴乔夫时期的改革经历、镇痛。作者是美国人，主要以他几次访问苏联的经历为主要线索

戴维·马登（David Madden），伦敦政治经济学院社会学系与城市项目助理教授。在城市研究类期刊上发表过多篇论文，担任《城市》期刊（City）编辑，并有评论常见于《伦敦政治经济学院书评》（LSE Review of Books）、《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post）和《卫报》（Guardian）等媒体。 彼得·马库塞（Peter Marcuse），哥伦比亚大学建筑规划及保护研究生院城市规划名誉教授。他在美国、英国和其他欧洲国家用英语和德语写作了大量的作品，发表于《国家》（Nation）、《纽约日报》（New York Newsday）、《每月评论》（Monthly Review）、《庇护之力》（Shelterforce）等报刊。

Peter Marcuse has long been recognised as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing about and participating in urban politics since the 1950s and remains on the cutting edge of urban activism today. In this book, co-written with David Madden, he argues that the housing question is not an architectural or moral question but a political and econo...(展开全部)

康纳•奥克莱利（Conor O’Clery），曾为《爱尔兰时报》驻莫斯科、伦敦、北京、纽约、华盛顿通讯记者。因报道苏联解体和九一一事件，两次获选为爱尔兰年度最佳记者。另著有 The Billionaire Who Wasn’t。

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capita...(展开全部)