The Historic Transition of Urban Spaces in the Peripheral Areas of the Soviet Union : Russian Far East, Ukraine, and Central Asia

申请人在乌克兰第二大城市哈尔科夫进行了调查，并将注意力集中在通过称为“自由广场”的中心区重建项目产生的“首都”上。申请人将改革过程概述为“外围的集中化”和“创造中心的边缘化”。申请人收集了43本关于该主题的书籍和文件，并得出结论，哈尔科夫中心地区是中央共产党社会空间的重要纪念碑，因为该地区在早期（20世纪30年代）放弃了作为“首都”的政治象征的功能。

The applicant investigated in Kharkov, which is the second largest city in Ukraine, and focused attention on the generation of a' capital' by the redevelopment project of the central area called the' freedom square'. The applicant overviews the reforming process as' centralization of periphery' and' marginalization of created center'. The applicant collected 43 books and documents about the theme, and concluded that the central area of Kharkov was quite an important monument of the social space of CCCP, because the area abandoned the function of the political symbol as a' capital' in earlier days(1930s).