Pt. 1. Historical perspectives: Sources of a radical mission in the early Soviet profession: Alexei Gan and the Moscow anarchists / Catherine Cooke
The Vesnins' Palace of Labour: the role of practice in materialising the revolutionary architecture / Catherine Cooke
Notes for a manifesto / Jonathan Charley
A postmodern critic's kit for interpreting socialist realism / Augustin Ioan
pt. 2. Architecture and change: History lessons / Fredric Jameson
Policing the body: Descartes and the architecture of change / Andrew Benjamin
The state as a work of art: the trauma of Ceausescu's Disneyland / Renata Salecl
Architecture of revolution? / Neil Leach
pt. 3. Strategies for a new Europe: Traces of the unborn / Daniel Libeskind
Resisting the erasure of history: Daniel Libeskind interviewed by Anne Wagner
The humanity of architecture / Dalibor Vesely
Disjunctions / Bernard Tschumi
The dark side of the domus: the redomestication of Central and Eastern Europe / Neil Leach
Architecture in post-totalitarian society: round-table discussion conducted by Bart Goldhoorn
pt. 4. The Romanian question: Totalitarian city: Bucharest 1980-9, semio-clinical files / Constantin Petcu
The People's House, or the voluptuous violence of an architectural paradox / Doina Petrescu
Utopia 1988, Romania; post-utopia 1995, Romania / Dorin Stefan
Rediscovering Romania / Ioana Sandi
pt. 5. Tombs and monuments: Berlin 1961-89: the bridal chamber / Neil Leach
Reflections on disgraced monuments / Laura Mulvey
Attacks on the castle / Hélène Cixous.