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 collectives," 1932

Moscow and environs as a "system of cities," by Hannes Meyer, 1932

Moscow master plan of 1935

Revolution Day march, November 1934

Secret burial ground for victims of the terror of the 1930s at Novospasskii Monastery

Joseph Stalin with Politburo members marking a map of Moscow region, late 1940s

"Tall building" at ploshchad' Vosstaniya, under construction, 1952

"Tall building" on Kotel'nicheskaya naberezhnaya

Elite apartment house, Kutuzovskii prospekt

Workers' barracks, First State Ballbearing Works, 1933

Moskva swimming pool in foundation of Palace of Soviets, 1988

The reinforced-concrete frontier: Novyye Cheremushki, 1961

Ground plan of the Ninth Experimental Block of Novyye Cheremushki

Prospekt Kalinina

Russian White House

Novokirovskii prospekt

Nikita Khrushchev inspecting Moscow site plans at a sculptor's studio, May 1963

Moscow master plan of 1971

The eight planning zones of the 1971 master plan

Changing dimensions of typical three-room Moscow apartment, 1950s to 1980s

Bibirevo housing district, northern Moscow

Krylatskoye housing district, western Moscow

Elite housing project, Profsoyuznaya ulitsa

Natan Osterman's House for the New Way of Life

Severnoye Chertanovo in 1988

Smokestack and cooling towers of a district thermopower station

Church of the Conception of St. Anne and Rossiya Hotel

Rebuilt Triumphal Gates

Unfinished All-Union Victory Monument in 1993

Shcherbakov Mansion, 1988

Newly elected leadership of the Moscow Soviet under bust of Lenin, May 1990

Dismounting of Dzerzhinskii statue in front of Lubyanka, August 1991

McDonald's office building, Gazetnyi pereulok

Shoppers and private trading stalls near Kiev Station, 1993

Unratified draft master plan, 1989

Rebuilt Kazan Cathedral