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From Ruins to Reconstruction : Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II /

Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story of the city's reb...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Qualls, Karl D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rebuilding as an urban identification project
  • Wartime destruction and historical identification
  • Local victory over Moscow : planning for the future
  • Accommodation : bringing life to the rubble
  • Agitation : rewriting the urban biography in stone
  • Persistence and resilience of local identification.