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LVIV's Uncertain Destination: A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev

LVIV's Uncertain Destination: A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev

Zayarnyuk, Andriy

Hardcover

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1487505191
ISBN13: 9781487505196
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 12 2019
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Lviv's Uncertain Destination examines the city's tumultuous twentieth-century history through the lens of its main railway terminal. Whereas most existing studies of eastern European cities centre their stories on discrete ethnic groups, milestone political events, and economic changes, this book's narrative is woven around an important site within the city's complex spatial matrix. Combining architectural, economic, social, and everyday life history, Andriy Zayarnyuk shows how different political regimes created dissimilar social spaces even on the same streets and in the same buildings. His narrative leads us to rethink how the late imperial Habsburg and Romanov, Stalinist and post-Stalinist Soviet, interwar Polish, and Nazi German regimes produced, structured, and controlled urban space. Focusing on railway workers, the book also draws attention to the history of Lviv's wage earners, who constituted the majority of the city's adult population.

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