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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464254003321

Autore

Stronski Paul

Titolo

Tashkent : forging a Soviet city, 1930-1966 / / Paul Stronski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8229-7389-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Disciplina

307.1/21609587

Soggetti

City planning - Uzbekistan - Tashkent - History - 20th century

City planning - Political aspects - Uzbekistan - Tashkent - History - 20th century

Social change - Uzbekistan - Tashkent - History - 20th century

Architecture - Uzbekistan - Tashkent - History - 20th century

Urban renewal - Uzbekistan - Tashkent - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.