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Introduction Frontier Town into Metropolis Rude Origins Modern Moscow The Partial Modernization of Local Institutions The Revolutionary Alternative Red Moscow 1917 Dilemmas of Power Urban Policy under War Communism Governing the Garrison From Reurbanization to Hyperurbanization The Urban NEP Casting the Institutional Die Feeling the Approach of Socialism Factory of Plans Stalin's Moscow Socialist Reconstruction Power Play Governance in the Stalinist Manner The Two Cities The Limits of De-Stalinization Khrushchev: Moscow for the Masses Brezhnev: Less of the Same Command Government Perpetuated Moscow and the Hydra State The Politics of Basic Needs and of Urban Amenity Planning for Metropolitan Development Housing A City for All Hours of the Day Environmental Concerns The Mold Shattered The Change to Change The Democratic Impulse A Stunning Election Exit the Partocracy Toward a Post-Socialist Metropolis The Minefield of Democratic Consolidation Reinventing Metropolitan Institutions Urban Development after Socialism Making a Civic Community Appendix: The Population of Moscow Appendix: Composition and Administrative Structure of the Municipal and Communist Party Organs of Soviet Moscow Appendix: Careers of Municipal and Communist Party Officials in Soviet Moscow Appendix: Housing Construction and Supply in Soviet Moscow Notes Acknowledgments Index Figures Kremlin, c. 1880 Chudov Monastery, c. 1880 Assumption Cathedral, c. 1880 St. Basil's Cathedral, c. 1880 Simonov Monastery, c. 1925 Sukharev Tower, c. 1880 Red Gates, c. 1880 Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, c. 1885 Bol'shoi Theater, c. 1880 Flophouse in Khitrov Market, c. 1900 Rally welcoming Bolshevik government to Moscow, March 1918 Liberty Obelisk and Moscow Soviet building, c. 1925 Boris Sakulin's regional plan, 1918 May Day subbotnik in Kremlin, 1920 Members of Moscow Soviet leaving for Civil War front, 1919 Sukharevskii Market, 1925 Homeless children, early 1920s Restoration of Golitsyn villa, 1925 Workers' housing at Usachevka, 1930 Government House residence on Moskva River Kremlin infirmary, ulitsa Vozdvizhenka Lenin Mausoleum, lineup on anniversary of Lenin's death, 1931 Rusakov Club Izvestiya newspaper building Commune house on Khavskaya ulitsa, 1930 Aleksei Shchusev's New Moscow plan, 1925 Greater Moscow plan, by Sergei Shestakov, 192S Nikolai Ladovskii's "dynamic city," 1930 Moscow and "workers' colonies," by German Krasin, 1930 Sketch by G. B. Puzis, 1930 Pantaleimon Golosov's labile planning concept, 1930 Stanislav Strumilin's proposal for a decentralized Moscow, 1930 Le Corbusier's radical vision of Moscow, 1930 Underground workers building the first segment of the subway, 1934 Architects' rendering of the Palace of Soviets and surrounding area Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer during removal of cladding, 1931 Official rally at site of demolished cathedral, early 1932 Tearing down Kitaigorod Wall, 1934 Planning sketch by V. B. Kratyuk, 1932 Ernst May's image of Moscow and outlying "city c
