1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Moscow
Introduction: Moscow as Metropole and Nexus
Christopher J. Ward
1. Moscow as Sacred City
John Mikitish
2. The Late Seventeenth-Century Moscow Epiphany Ritual
Kevin M. Kain
3. The Menshikov Tower and Peter I’s Moscow in the 1700s
Jelena Pogosjan
4. “A Collection of Mansions”: Urban Gardening and Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Moscow
Anna Guseva
5. Behind the Grand Facades in an Unassuming Alleyway: Evangelicals in Moscow
Vera Kliueva and Nadezhda Beliakova
6. Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin as the gorodskoi golova of Moscow: Municipal Government Between the Reform and the Counter-Reform
Josef Šaur
7. The Occult in Moscow during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Angela Borozna
8. Applying the Concentric Model: The Urbanization of Moscow during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Artem Pankin
9. Isadora Duncan’s Educational Project in Moscow
Elena Yushkova
10. Welcome to Moscow: Reflections on the Northern River Terminal
Cynthia A. Ruder
11. Directing the Future in Stalinist Moscow: The Avenue of the Palace of the Soviets
Dmitrii Sidorov
12. “Where the Spanish Pulse Beats”: Moscow’s Spanish Center, 1966-2024
Glennys Young
13. Moscow: A Soviet Mecca for Africans
Mohamed Mohamady
14. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir the Great: Moscow’s Monumental Makeover, 1991–2024
Kathleen E. Smith
15. Migration Control in Modern Moscow
Colin Johnson
16. The Third Rome in Contemporary Russian Media Space
Domagoj Krpan
17. Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of This City: Moscow as Site of Media Reconstruction, Resilience, and Resistance
Sheila B. Lalwani
18. Governing a Large Metropolis within Russian Federalism: The Case of the Moscow Transportation System
Vladimir Pawlotsky
19. “Your Face Is Big Data” in Moscow: Official Presentation of the Smart City versus Everyday Reality
Antonina Semivolos
20. The History of Moscow: Online Resources
Anna Batzeli
Biography
Christopher J. Ward is Professor of History at Clayton State University in metropolitan Atlanta. Ward serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review and is the author of Brezhnev’s Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism, Revolutionary Russia, 1917, and Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus’ to the Present.
