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The Ukrainian West : Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical Studies; SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (375 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061262
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Ukrainian WestDDC classification:
  • 947.7/9
LOC classification:
  • DK508
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreign Terms and Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- I. Lviv and the Soviet West -- 1: Lviv and Postwar Soviet Politics -- 2: The Making of a Soviet Ukrainian City -- 3: The New Lvivians -- 4: The Ukrainian "Soviet Abroad" -- II. Lviv and the Ukrainian Nation -- 5: Language and Literary Politics -- 6: Lviv and the Ukrainian Past -- 7: Youth and the Nation -- 8: Mass Culture and Counterculture -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Note on Interviews -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Oral Interviews -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Months before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreign Terms and Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- I. Lviv and the Soviet West -- 1: Lviv and Postwar Soviet Politics -- 2: The Making of a Soviet Ukrainian City -- 3: The New Lvivians -- 4: The Ukrainian "Soviet Abroad" -- II. Lviv and the Ukrainian Nation -- 5: Language and Literary Politics -- 6: Lviv and the Ukrainian Past -- 7: Youth and the Nation -- 8: Mass Culture and Counterculture -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Note on Interviews -- Notes -- Archives Consulted -- Oral Interviews -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Months before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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