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The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv
William Jay Risch
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Hardback. 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. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 374 pages, 12 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674050013
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V9780674050013
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About William Jay Risch
William Jay Risch is Associate Professor of History at Georgia College and State University.
Reviews for The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv
Risch's examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Lviv—one of the major Soviet windows on the West—is unmatched in its detail and depth of understanding. His analysis of the rise of nonconformist trends in the sphere of popular culture heralds a welcome addition to the history of Soviet society in the post-World War II era.
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