Tashkent Forging a Soviet City 1930 1966 1st Edition by Paul Stronski ISBN 0822973898 9780822973898

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ISBN 10: 0822973898

ISBN 13: 9780822973898

Author:  Paul Stronski 

Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 1st Edition: 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, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase. The Soviets planned to transform Tashkent from a u201cfeudal cityu201d of the tsarist era into a u201cflourishing garden,u201d replete with fountains, a lakeside resort, modern roadways, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and of course, factories. The city was intended to be a shining example to the world of the successful assimilation of a distinctly non-Russian city and its citizens through the catalyst of socialism. As Stronski reveals, the physical building of this Soviet city was not an end in itself, but rather a means to change the people and their society. Stronski analyzes how the local population of Tashkent reacted to, resisted, and eventually acquiesced to the cityÆs socialist transformation. He records their experiences of the Great Terror, World War II, StalinÆs death, and the developments of the Krushchev and Brezhnev eras up until the earthquake of 1966, which leveled large parts of the city. Stronski finds that the Soviets established a legitimacy that transformed Tashkent and its people into one of the more stalwart supporters of the regime through years of political and cultural changes and finally during the upheavals of glasnost.

 

Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 A City to Be Transformed 16

3 Imagining a “Cultured” Tashkent 46

4 War and Evacuation 72

Gallery of Photographs 105

5 Central Asian Lives at War 119

6 The Postwar Soviet City, 1945-1953 145

7 Central Asian Tashkent and the Postwar Soviet State 173

 

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