Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning 1917-1935

1. Introduction: Why the Twenties?
2. Architecture in Prerevolutionary Russia
3. The Necessary Conditions
4. 1920-1925: The Pursuit of Formal Expression
   • "Tatlin's Tower"
   • The Palace of Labor
   • The All-Union Agricultural Exposition
   • The Exposition of Decorative Arts
5. 1925-1932: An Architecture for the New Times
   • Technology and World Architecture
   • Experimental Trends
   • Constructivism in Architecture
6. Transformation of the Way of Life
   • Yuri Larin: Housing and the Way of Life
   • A Framework for the New Society
7. 1925-1932: New Social Condensers
   • The Workers' Club
   • Housing
   • The Stroikom Units
   • The Communal House
   • The Supercollectivization of Life
   • Industrial Centers
8. Town and Revolution
   • To Build New Cities “Urbanists” and "Deurbanists"
   • The Socialist Reconstruction of Moscow
   • The "Deurbanists" and the New City: Magnitogorsk
   • The Socialist City
9. A New Phase: Ivan Leonidov
10. Dream and Reality
    • Vopra (All-Russian Association of Proletarian Architects)
    • Socialist Content, National Form
11. Conclusion: From the Twenties to the Year 2000

Documentary Appendixes

1. Excerpt from Sergei Kirov's Speech at the First Congress of the Soviets (December 30, 1922)
2. Opinion Survey on the Subject of the Communal House (1927)
3. Report of the Building Committee of the R.S.F.S.R.(1928)
4. Editorial Favoring Deurbanization (1930)
5. Protest of S.A. against Distortion of the Problems of Architecture and City Planning by the Press (1930)
6. Le Corbusier-Ginzburg Correspondence (1930)
7. Excerpts from El Lisitsky's Russland: Die Rekonstruktion der Architektur in der Sowjetunion (1930)
8. Excerpts from N. A. Milyutin's Sotzgorod (1930)
9. Hannes Meyer on the Bauhaus at Moscow (1930)
10. Decision of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Communist Party (1930)