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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1. VerfasserIn: Amar, Tarik Cyril 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY London Cornell University Press 2015
In:Jahr: 2015
Ausgabe:First published
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:x, 356 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
ISBN:9780801453915