Comprehending turmoil : post-Soviet Russia as a struggle for property -- The tangled web they wove : property in the USSR before 1985 -- Let the games begin, 1985-91 -- The next big thing : property in the era of mass privatization and land reform, 1992-94 -- Many currents, one tumultuous river...

This article explores how Bolshevik/Soviet authorities took on and adapted the Russian imperial topography of power i.e. the system of special structures that intended to convey state ideology (monuments to tsars and statesmen, emperors' residences with their various ceremonial spaces,...