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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793823803321

Autore

Zayarnyuk Andriy

Titolo

Lviv's Uncertain Destination : A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev / / Andriy Zayarnyuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4875-3173-7

1-4875-3172-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 pages)

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

947.79

Soggetti

Brezhnev

Franz Joseph I

Lviv

Polish and Nazi regimes

Stalinist and post-Stalinist

history of railway workers

interwar

late imperial Habsburg and Romanov

railway terminal

twentieth-century history

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

History

Lʹviv (Ukraine) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. City Gates of the Steam Age -- 2. The Shape of Things to Come -- 3. Steal, Stone, Sweat, and Imagination -- 4. Inter Arma -- 5. Virtuti Militari -- 6. The Catastrophe7. "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly" -- 8. Order without Law -- 9. Terminal for All -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--