Dnipro : : An Entangled History of a European City / / Andrii Portnov.

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• VerfasserIn: Portnov, Andrii,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Ukrainian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories -- 1 The Potemkin City -- 2 Manchester on the Dnipro -- 3 The Symphony of Revolutions -- 4 The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk -- 5 A City at War -- 6 Brezhnev’s Capital -- Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two -- Bibliography -- Index