Paul Stronski is an independent scholar and lecturer who has taught at Stanford, George Mason, and George Washington universities.
"A solid account based on a large number of materials from Moscow
as well as from several Uzbek archives. These documents include not
only urban development plans but also private letters intercepted
during World War II about hunger and disease, despair and death in
makeshift shelters or wet factory basements."--Slavic Review
"A superb piece of research that brings together urban history,
social history, and debates about modernity and colonialism in the
Soviet periphery. Paul Stronski traces the multifaceted
transformation of Tashkent from the 1930s to the 1960s, showing the
impact of Soviet power and world war on the city's physical and
social environment. This is an important work on a region and
period that have received far too little scholarly attention."
--Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Enjoyable, smoothly written, wide in scope, and full of
fascinating points; it should be recommended to historians of the
USSR and their students, and can be used as a resource for research
and teaching alike."
--Russian Review
"One of this book's most salient features is Stronski's use of
archival sources located at the federal, republic, and city levels,
as well as his ability to negotiate documents in both Russian and
Uzbek. An important addition to understanding how Soviet power was
implemented and resisted in an urban center. Highly
recommended."
--Choice
"Stronski's groundbreaking research allows a vivid portrayal of how
leaders imagined and transformed one of the Soviet Union's most
important cities, which was designed to be a model for a
postcolonial world."
--Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton University, Canada
"This fascinating study details how Soviet planners used cities as
blunt instruments to eliminate the landscapes of imperial Russia
and reshape, modernize, and even homogenize traditional societies
across the USSR. Stronski illuminates the dramatic and often brutal
ways in which Tashkent was conceived and constructed as the
population, communications, and cultural hub for a transformed
Central Asia."
--Fiona Hill, The Brookings Institution
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