Dnipro : An entangled history of a European city / Andrii Portnov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portnov, Andriĭ, author.

Series:

Biblioteka ukraïnoznavstva.

Ukrainian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dnipro (Ukraine)--History.

Dnipro (Ukraine).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2022]

Summary:

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

Contents:

Introduction: "The Unfinished City" and Its Histories

The Potemkin City

Manchester on the Dnipro

The Symphony of Revolutions

The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk

A City at War

Brezhnev's Capital

Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798887190327

OCLC:

1356003408