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The Ukrainian West : culture and the fate of empire in Soviet Lviv /

In 1990, months before crowds in Moscow and other major cities dismantled their monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. William Jay Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire inadvertently shaped this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Risch, William Jay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 173.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Lviv and the Soviet West
  • Lviv and postwar Soviet politics
  • The making of a Soviet Ukrainian city
  • The new Lvivians
  • The Ukrainian "Soviet abroad"
  • pt. 2. Lviv and the Ukrainian nation
  • Language and literary politics
  • Lviv and the Ukrainian past
  • Youth and the nation
  • Mass culture and counterculture
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Note on interviews.