The paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: a borderland city between Stalinists, Nazis, and nationalists
"This book is a local and transnational study of the twentieth-century experience of a Central European borderland city with four key forces of European and global twentieth-century history: Soviet Communism, Soviet nation-shaping (here, Ukrainization), nationalism, and Nazism. It examines a fu...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, NY London
Cornell University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | First published |
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| Summary: | "This book is a local and transnational study of the twentieth-century experience of a Central European borderland city with four key forces of European and global twentieth-century history: Soviet Communism, Soviet nation-shaping (here, Ukrainization), nationalism, and Nazism. It examines a fundamental layer in the making of modern Lviv by focusing on its World-War-Two and postwar transformation from an important multi-ethnic city (formerly known, mostly, as Lw[o acute]w and Lemberg) into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center"-- Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg before 1939 -- The first Soviet Lviv, 1939-1941 -- The Lemberg of Nazism: German occupation, 1941-1944 -- After Lemberg: the end of the end of Lwów and the making of Lviv -- The founding of industrial Lviv: factories and identities -- Local minds -- Lviv's last synagogue, 1944-1962 -- A Soviet borderland of time |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | x, 356 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780801453915 |