The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
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.
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The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
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.
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The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
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.
Tarik Cyril Amar is Associate Professor in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koc University.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg before 19392. The First Soviet Lviv, 1939–19413. The Lemberg of Nazism: German Occupation, 1941–19444. After Lemberg: The End of the End of Lwów and the Making of Lviv5. The Founding of Industrial Lviv: Factories and Identities6. Local Minds7. Lviv's Last Synagogue, 1944–19628. A Soviet Borderland of TimeConclusion: A Sonderweg through Soviet Modernity
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Jan T. Gross
"Tarik Cyril Amar has written an excellent and deeply researched study of a multiethnic city in the borderlands of Europe. It is a lasting contribution to the literature on communismnationalism, and ethnic cleansing."
Michael David-Fox
"The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv is deeply researched and makes contributions to Ukrainian, Russian/Soviet, East European, and European history. It speaks to all those concerned with the history of the Holocaust and German occupation in the east, in Sovietization, in communism and nationalism, and in urban/regional studies. But that is not all. Anyone following the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will understand the dramatic and seismic events occurring before our eyes with greater depth in light of the findings of this landmark book. Tarik Amar is one of the best informed and level-headed analysts of contemporary as well as historical events in Ukraine."