The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities
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978-1-032-98286-1 (ISBN)
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These are, for instance, the efforts of Esperanto-speaking internationalists from Czechoslovakia to build the internationalist city from below in the Central Asian steppe, the quest of Armenian Futurists to root the architectural style of Soviet Armenia in the country’s Persianate heritage, or the vision of a Jewish-Kyrgyz philosopher of turning a science town in the hinterland of Moscow into the first ecopolis of the USSR. In an effort to rethink the life and afterlife of the Soviet city from its geographical South, the book explores the material and immaterial legacies of socialist-era urbanization in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. To this end, it embarks on a historical and ethnographic journey to urban sites in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. In quest of reconstructing from varied empirical sources in Armenian, Czech, Kyrgyz and Russian competing visions of urbanity that emerged from within the Soviet South, the book outlines four competing urban visions: bottom-up urbanity, rooted urbanity, polycentric urbanity and ecocentric urbanity. The project aims to bring the regions of the South Caucasus and Central Asia. By understanding the social vision of a "socialist city of the future" beyond the political center in its trans-local interdependence it highlights the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Soviet South and its historical embeddedness within the regional dynamics of the Global South.
As such, this will be an important resource for students, instructors, and researchers in understanding and thinking through socialism, post-socialist transformation and histories of the USSR. In this, David Leupold brings formidable historical imagination and ethnographic research to enliven the shape, contours, and textures of the 'socialist city' and its afterlife beyond the demise of the Soviet Union.
Dr David Leupold is an interdisciplinary social scientist, scholar of memory studies and winner of the CESS book award. After his fellowship at the University of Michigan he is currently pursuing his habilitation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Introduction, I: What is Left of the Future City? Southern Soviet Cities as Legacy and Horizon, II: The Esperanto-Speaking City-Builders: The Industrial Commune "Interhelpo" and Bottom-Up Urbanity in early-Soviet Bishkek, III: “For us the Desert is Buzzing Cities”: Rooted Urbanity in early Soviet Yerevan between Constructivism and Armenian Futurism, IV: Building the 15-Minute City in the Steppe: The Kichi-Raion and Polycentric Urbanity in post-Stalinist Bishkek, V: From Science Town to Ecopolis: A Kyrgyz-Jewish Philosopher and Ecocentric Urbanity in late-Soviet Pushchino, VI: The Right to the Cosmos: Reclaiming Public Urbanity at the Soviet Planetarium, VII: The Past is a Foreign City: The Resuscitation of the Soviet-Armenian novel “Yerevan” (1931) and the Haunting of Eastern Urbanity, Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.5.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 4 Line drawings, black and white; 36 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-98286-1 / 1032982861 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-98286-1 / 9781032982861 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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