David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)New Books in Sociology What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question—what is left of the socialist city?—this book a...148 days agoDavid Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)New Books in Sociology0:00 / 0:00Read the original at newbooksnetwork.comUse this feed in your RSS readerCopy the publisher’s public feed URL, or build an OPML reading list for another reader.Copy RSS URL Open RSS feed · Find feeds & export OPMLKeep up with this sourceFollow this sourceKeep this source in your dashboard and return to its latest articles. Email alerts are managed separately in Settings.FetchFeeds groups articles by feed so you can follow sources, compare coverage, and save stories for later.Back to all articles from New Books in SociologyMore from this feedChoose another story from New Books in Sociology.Joe P. L. Davidson, "Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times" (MIT Press, 2026)Jackie M. Blount, "Straighten Up, Girls and Boys: How Schools Have Shaped Sexuality and Gender" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)Ranita Ray, "Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)Caste and Music with T.M. KrishnaArpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference" (U Toronto Press, 2025)Carrie LeVan, "Neighborhoods Matter: How Place and People Affect Political Participation" (NYU Press, 2026)Martina Baradel, "21st Century Yakuza: Death of Japanese Organised Crime" (Oxford UP, 2026)Alexandre Frenette, "Blame the Intern: On (Not) Breaking Into the Creative Economy" (Princeton UP, 2026)