The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow by Ward, Christopher J.;

Short description:

This timely handbook of recent scholarship on Moscow moves beyond today’s headlines to present a broad spectrum of methodological and historiographic perspectives on the city’s historical and contemporary significance.

Long description:

This timely handbook of recent scholarship on Moscow moves beyond today’s headlines to present a broad spectrum of methodological and historiographic perspectives on the city’s historical and contemporary significance.

In the over 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the history of Moscow has been explored through focused approaches including academic and architectural histories, guidebooks, fiction, and other texts. However, the broader history of Moscow as a whole has been a secondary consideration, and the lack of a unified body of academic works is profound. The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow redresses this deficiency by placing the city within its deserved longue durée context. It is particularly notable in that it includes chapters from historians who continue to work within the Russian Federation despite personal risk, scholars in the Russian diaspora, and Russian studies specialists from Europe, Canada, and the United States. Through this variety of lenses, readers will be provided with an understanding of Moscow’s prominent role on the world stage, both past and present.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow will be useful for university faculty seeking a non-textbook option for their undergraduate and graduate courses in Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Moscow as Metropole and Nexus  1. Moscow as Sacred City  2. The Late Seventeenth-Century Moscow Epiphany Ritual  3. The Menshikov Tower and Peter I’s Moscow in the 1700s  4. “A Collection of Mansions”: Urban Gardening and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Moscow  5. Behind the Grand Facades in an Unassuming Alleyway: Evangelicals in Moscow  6. Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin as the gorodskoi golova of Moscow: Municipal Government Between the Reform and the Counter-Reform  7. The Occult in Moscow during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  8. Applying the Concentric Model: The Urbanization of Moscow during the 19th and 20th Centuries  9. Isadora Duncan’s Educational Project in Moscow  10. Welcome to Moscow: Reflections on the Northern River Terminal  11. Directing the Future in Stalinist Moscow: The Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets  12. “Where the Spanish Pulse Beats”: Moscow’s Spanish Center, 1966-2024  13. Moscow: A Soviet Mecca for Africans  14. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir the Great: Moscow’s Monumental Makeover, 1991–2024  15. Migration Control in Modern Moscow  16. The Third Rome in Contemporary Russian Media Space  17. Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of This City: Moscow as Site of Media Reconstruction, Resilience, and Resistance  18. Governing a Large Metropolis within Russian Federalism: The Case of the Moscow Transportation System  19. “Your Face Is Big Data” in Moscow: Official Presentation of the Smart City versus Everyday Reality  20. The History of Moscow: Online Resources