Lviv's uncertain destination : a city and its train terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev / Andriy Zayarnyuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zayarnyuk, Andriy, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad stations--Ukraine--Lʹviv--History--20th century.

Railroad stations.

History.

Lʹviv (Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Lʹviv (Ukraine).

Ukraine--Lʹviv.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 City Gates of the Steam Age p. 13

2 The Shape of Things to Come p. 30

3 Steel, Stone, Sweat, and Imagination p. 71

4 Inter Arma p. 103

5 Virtuti Militari p. 126

6 The Catastrophe p. 157

7 "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly" p. 190

8 Order without Law p. 217

9 The Terminal for All p. 242.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781487505196

1487505191

OCLC:

1067214608