The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv : : A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists / / Tarik Cyril Amar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Amar, Tarik Cyril,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.) :; 14 halftones

The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar explains a striking paradox: Soviet rule, which came to Lviv in ruthless Stalinist shape and lasted for half a century, left behind the most Ukrainian version of the city in history. In reconstructing this dramatically profound change, Amar illuminates the historical background in present-day identities and tensions within Ukraine.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology -- Archival Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg before 1939 -- Chapter Two. The First Soviet Lviv, 1939–1941 -- Chapter Three. The Lemberg of Nazism: German Occupation, 1941–1944 -- Chapter Four. After Lemberg: The End of the End of Lwów and the Making of Lviv -- Chapter Five. The Founding of Industrial Lviv: Factories and Identities -- Chapter Six. Local Minds -- Chapter Seven. Lviv’s Last Synagogue, 1944–1962 -- Chapter Eight. A Soviet Borderland of Time -- Conclusion: A Sonderweg through Soviet Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index