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Races to modernity, metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940, edited by Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kohlrausch

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Races to modernity

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edited by Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kohlrausch

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metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940

1. Introduction -- Races to modernity : metropolitan aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940 : an introduction / Jan C. Behrends, Martin Kohlrausch -- 2. The social and the national question in the Eastern metropolis -- Modernity as mask : reality, appearance, and knowledge on the Petersburg street / Mark D. Steinberg -- Modernist visions and mass politics in late imperial Kiev / Faith Hillis -- Creating Polish Wilno, 1919-1939 / Theodore R. Weeks -- Modern Moscow : Russia's metropolis and the state from Tsarism to Stalinism / Jan C. Behrends -- 3. Urbanism goes East : the development of capitals, infrastructure, and planning -- Athens, 1890-1940 : transitory modernism and national realities / Eleni Bastéa -- Between rivalry, irrationality, and resistance : the modernization of Belgrade, 1890-1914 / Dubravka Stojanovic -- Architectural praxis in Sofia : the changing perception of "Oriental" urbanity and "European" urbanism (1879-1940) / Elitza Stanoeva -- Warszawa funkcjonalna : radical urbanism and the international discourse on planning in the interwar period / Martin Kohlrausch -- 4. Ostmoderne? East European modernism -- Capital modernism in the Baltic Republics : Kaunas, as well as Tallinn and Riga / Steven A. Mansbach -- Helsinki : shaping an imperial or national capital city? / Laura Kolbe -- Modernizing Zagreb : the freedom of the periphery / Eve Blau