Introduction
Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the dynamics of conquest
Ceremonies, construction, and commemoration
Educated society, identity, and nationality
Unstable boundaries: the colonial relationship and the 1892 "Cholera riot"
Migration, class, and colonialism
The predicaments of "progress," 1905-1914
War, empire, and society, 1914-1916
Exploiters or exploited? Russian workers and colonial rule, 1917-1918
"Under a Soviet roof": city, country, and center, 1918-1923.