Tashkent : forging a Soviet city, 1930-1966

Tashkent : forging a Soviet city, 1930-1966 /

Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners,...

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Main Author: Stronski, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2010.
Series:Series in Russian and East European studies.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Social change > Soviet Union > Case studies.
City planning > Soviet Union > Case studies.
Urban renewal > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > History > 20th century.
Architecture > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > History > 20th century.
Social change > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > History > 20th century.
City planning > Political aspects > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > History > 20th century.
City planning > Uzbekistan > Tashkent > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > General.
Architecture
City planning
City planning > Political aspects
Ethnic relations
Social change
Social conditions
Urban renewal
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > History > 20th century.
Soviet Union
Uzbekistan > Tashkent
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Case studies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • A city to be transformed
  • Imagining a "cultured" Tashkent
  • War and evacuation
  • Central Asian lives at war
  • The postwar Soviet city, 1945-1953
  • Central Asian Tashkent and the postwar Soviet state
  • Redesigning Tashkent after Stalin
  • The Tashkent model
  • Epilogue.

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