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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 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
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