The Ukrainian West : Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv / William Jay Risch.
Risch, William Jay, author.
2011
DK508.95.L86 R57 2011eb
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Title The Ukrainian West : Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv / William Jay Risch.
Author Risch, William Jay, author.
ISBN 9780674061262
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061262
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (374 p.) : 12 halftones, 5 tables
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674061262 doi
Call Number DK508.95.L86 R57 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.7/9
Summary 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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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreign Terms and Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
PART I. Lviv and the Soviet West
CHAPTER 1. Lviv and Postwar Soviet Politics
CHAPTER 2. The Making of a Soviet Ukrainian City
CHAPTER 3. The New Lvivians
CHAPTER 4. The Ukrainian "Soviet Abroad"
PART II. Lviv and the Ukrainian Nation
CHAPTER 5. Language and Literary Politics
CHAPTER 6. Lviv and the Ukrainian Past
CHAPTER 7. Youth and the Nation
CHAPTER 8. Mass Culture and Counterculture
Conclusion
Appendix: Note on Interviews
Notes
Archives Consulted
Oral Interviews
Acknowledgments
Index

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