Races to Modernity

Autorentext
Jan C. Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, teaches East European History at Humboldt University, Berlin. Martin Kohlrausch is Associate Professor of European History, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Klappentext
This volume succeeds beautifully in conveying a detailed sense of urban development in Eastern Europe and the crucial importance of cities for the moderniszation of Eastern Europe during the half century before World War II.

Inhalt
1. Introduction 2. The social and the national question in the Eastern metropolis; Steinberg Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowledge on the Petersburg Street; Hillis Modernist Visions and Mass Politics in Late Imperial Kiev; Behrends Modern Moscow: Russia's Metropolis and the State from Tsarism to Stalinism; Weeks Creating Polish Wilno 1919-1939 3. Urbanism goes east: the development of capitals, infrastructure, and planning; Bastea Athens 1890 - 1940: Transitory Modernism and National Realities; Stojanovic Between Rivalry, Irrationality, and Resistance: The Modernization of Belgrade, 1890-1914; Stanoeva Architectural Praxis in Sofia: The Changing Perception of "Oriental" Urbanity and "European" Urbanism (1879-1940); Kohlrausch Warszawa Funkcjonalna: Radical Urbanism and the International Discourse on Planning in the Interwar Period; 4. Ostmoderne? East European modernism; Mansbach Capital Modernism: Kaunas's Architecture for a New Lithuania; Kolbe Helsinki: Shaping an Imperial or National Capital City? Blau Modernizing Zagreb: The Freedom of the Periphery 5. Bibliography 6. List of Contributors

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