Stronski P. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930-1966

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. — 368 p. — Pitt series in Russian and East European studies (Central Eurasia in context). — ISBN: 9780822961130.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.Preface and Aknowledgments
List of Names and TermsA city to be transformed
Imagining a "Cultured" Tashkent
War and Evacuation
Central Asian Lives and War
The postwar Soviet City
Central Asian Tashkent and the postwar Soviet State
Redesigning Tashkent after Stalin
The Tashkent Model
Epilogue
Notes