Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture Edition:English - Softcover and the effective employment of

and the effective employment of new technology

Graphic design by Wayne Daly

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Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture Edition:English - Softcover and the effective employment ofIdealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean Louis Cohen traces the concept of Amerikanizm and its impact on Russias built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular Worlds Fairs of the nineteenth century,