Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. List of Figures xi
6. 1. Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940. An Introduction 1
7. THE SOCIAL AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN THE EASTERN METROPOLIS
8. 2. Modernity as Mask: Reality, Appearance, and Knowledge on the Petersburg Street 21
9. 3. Modernist Visions and Mass Politics in Late Imperial Kiev 49
10. 4. Creating Polish Wilno, 1919–1939 73
11. 5. Modern Moscow: Russia’s Metropolis and the State from Tsarism to Stalinism 101
12. URBANISM GOES EAST: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALS, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND PLANNING
13. 6. Athens, 1890–1940: Transitory Modernism and National Realities 125
14. 7. Between Rivalry, Irrationality, and Resistance: The Modernization of Belgrade, 1890–1914 153
15. 8. Architectural Praxis in Sofia: The Changing Perception of Oriental Urbanity and European Urbanism, 1879–1940 179
16. 9. Warszawa Funkcjonalna: Radical Urbanism and the International Discourse on Planning in the Interwar Period 205
17. OSTMODERNE? EAST EUROPEAN MODERNISM
18. 10. Capital Modernism in the Baltic Republics: Kaunas, Tallinn, and Riga 233
19. 11. Imperial and National Helsinki: Shaping an Eastern or Western Capital City? 267
20. 12. Modernizing Zagreb: The Freedom of the Periphery 289
21. Bibliography 313
22. List of Contributors 345
23. Index 349