common places: mythologies of everyday life in Russia Svetlana Boym

Harvard university Press 1994

Kitsch: The Anthology of Bad Taste ed. Gillo Dorfles 1969 Chernyshevsky and the age of realism: study in the semiotics of behavior, Irina Paperno 1989

Between Tsar and People: Educated society and the quest for public identity in late imperial Russia, eds. Edith W. Clowes etc.. 1991 (about Russian middle-class)

on the intelligentsia: Isaiah Berlin The Russian thinkers 1956 Richard Pipes, ed. Russian Intelligentsia 1961 Lev Gudkov, "Intelligenty i intellectualy" in Znamia 3/4, 1992, 203-220

on the making of a new soviet man see Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., The positive hero in Russian literature 1975

Bolshevik Visions, ed. William Rosenberg 1990 (about soviet new city)

Montage and Modern Life ed Matthew Teitelbaum 1992 (about soviet construction of space and politics of montage)

For a historical description of revolutionary utopias, see Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution; Moisei Ginzburg, Style and Epoch 1982 For theory and comparative views on Utopia see Frank and Frizie Maneul, Utopian Thought in the Western world 1979

S. Frederick Starr, Melnikov: solo Architect in the mass society 1978

The body in Pain: the making and unmaking of the world 1985

Susan Stewart, On Longing: narratives of the miniature, the Gigantic, the souvenir, the collection 1984

Late Soviet Culture from Perestroika to Novostroika 1993

(bordom and domesticity) Cathy Popkin, The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov,Zoshchenko, Gogol 1993

Mario Praz, An illustrated history of interior decoration from Pompeii to Art Nouveau (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981)