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The Ukrainian West :

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0674061268

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9780674061262

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0674050010

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9780674050013

Title Proper

The Ukrainian West :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

culture and the fate of empire in Soviet Lviv /

First Statement of Responsibility

William Jay Risch.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Harvard University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 360 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

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Harvard historical studies ;

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173

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-339) and index.

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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.

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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 periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union. Lviv's borderlands identity was defined by complicated relationships with its Polish neighbor, its imperial Soviet occupier, and the real and imagined West. The city's intellectuals--working through compromise rather than overt opposition--strained the limits of censorship in order to achieve greater public use of Ukrainian language and literary expression, and challenged state-sanctioned histories with their collective memory of the recent past. Lviv's post-Stalin-generation youth, to which Risch pays particular attention, forged alternative social spaces where their enthusiasm for high culture, politics, soccer, music, and film could be shared. The Ukrainian West enriches our understanding not only of the Soviet Union's postwar evolution but also of the role urban spaces, cosmopolitan identities, and border regions play in the development of nations and empires. And it calls into question many of our assumptions about the regional divisions that have characterized politics in Ukraine. Risch shines a bright light on the political, social, and cultural history that turned this once-peripheral city into a Soviet window on the West.

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Months before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.

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22573/ctt1j3rsj

Title

Ukrainian West.

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9780674050013

Ethnicity-- Ukraine-- Lʹviv-- History-- 20th century.

Nationalism-- Ukraine-- Lʹviv-- History-- 20th century.

Ukrainian language-- Political aspects-- Ukraine-- Lʹviv-- History.

Ethnicity.

Etnicitet-- historia.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Eastern.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Former Soviet Republics.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

International relations.

Internationella relationer-- historia.

Nationalism-- historia.

Nationalism.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Nationalism & Patriotism.

Politics and government.

Politik-- historia.

Social conditions.

Ukrainian language-- Political aspects.

Ukrainska språket-- politiska aspekter-- historia.

Europe, Relations, Ukraine, Lʹviv.

Lʹviv (Ukraine), History, 20th century.

Lʹviv (Ukraine), Politics and government, 20th century.

Lʹviv (Ukraine), Relations, Europe.

Lʹviv (Ukraine), Relations, Soviet Union.

Lʹviv (Ukraine), Social conditions, 20th century.

Soviet Union, Relations, Ukraine, Lʹviv.

Europe.

Lemberg.

Lemberg.

Soviet Union.

Ukraina, Lviv.

Ukraine, Lʹviv.

Ukraine, West

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Risch, William Jay

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