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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Main Author: Amar, Tarik Cyril 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press 2019
Edition:First paperback printing 2019
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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"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:X, 356 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501735806