The paradox of Ukrainian Lviv : a borderland city between Stalinists, Nazis, and nationalists /

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Author / Creator:Amar, Tarik Youssef Cyril, 1969- author.
Imprint:Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
©2015
Description:x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10447612
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ISBN:9780801453915
0801453917
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-347) and index.
Summary:"This book is a local and transnational study of the twentieth-century experience of a Central European borderland city with four key forces of European and global twentieth-century history: Soviet Communism, Soviet nation-shaping (here, Ukrainization), nationalism, and Nazism. It examines a fundamental layer in the making of modern Lviv by focusing on its World-War-Two and postwar transformation from an important multi-ethnic city (formerly known, mostly, as Lw[o acute]w and Lemberg) into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center"--