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Tashkent : Forging a Soviet City, 1930-1966.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Central Eurasia in Context SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (370 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822973898
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: TashkentDDC classification:
  • 307.1/21609587
LOC classification:
  • HT169
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Names and Terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A City to Be Transformed -- 3. Imagining a "Cultured" Tashkent -- 4. War and Evacuation -- Gallery of Photographs -- 5. Central Asian Lives at War -- 6. The Postwar Soviet City, 1945-1953 -- 7. Central Asian Tashkent and the Postwar Soviet State -- 8. Redesigning Tashkent after Stalin -- 9. The Tashkent Model -- 10. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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. Stronski shows how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase.Winner of the 2011 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in history and the humanities.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Names and Terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A City to Be Transformed -- 3. Imagining a "Cultured" Tashkent -- 4. War and Evacuation -- Gallery of Photographs -- 5. Central Asian Lives at War -- 6. The Postwar Soviet City, 1945-1953 -- 7. Central Asian Tashkent and the Postwar Soviet State -- 8. Redesigning Tashkent after Stalin -- 9. The Tashkent Model -- 10. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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. Stronski shows how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase.Winner of the 2011 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in history and the humanities.

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