Foreword, Stephen BannObject, Space, Culture: Introduction, Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich1 The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language, V. N. Voloshinov2 Yermolova, Sergei Eisenstein3 The Spacial Form of a Character, Mikhail Bakhtin4 Painting and the Language of Theater: Notes on the Problem of Iconic Rhetoric, Yury Lotman5 Movement--Immobility, Vladimir Paperny6 Sots-Art, Zinovy Zinik7 Public and Artist in Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Grigory Sternin8 Stalinism as Aesthetic Phenomenon, Boris Groys9 Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater, Mikhail Yampolsky10 Things and Words: Toward a Lyrical Museum, Mikhail Epshtein11 The Ropes of Ilya Kabakov: An Experiment in Interpretation of a Conceptual Installation, Alexander Rappaport12 Mass Celebrations in a Totalitarian System, Alexander Zakharov13 Paper Architecture in the Age of the French Revolution, Gennady Revzin