Lviv's Uncertain Destination
A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev
Published on 12. December 2019
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-4875-0519-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a book that gives as much attention to those 'little purposes' of everyday life as it does to the grand visions of political regimes. It subjects conventional understandings of grand historical narratives to the messy, contingent, personal and entangled projects that animate experiences of public space, social order and identity in everyday life. In so doing, it challenges and reimagines the terms in which a city's histories and geographies can be told."- Shawn Bodden (Eurasian Geography and Economics) "Even to readers not specializing in the history of Lviv or Ukraine, the book offers interesting insights and observations regarding the construction of the rhetoric of belonging by the changing design of Lviv's railway terminal, as well as the history of railway workers. Zayarnyuk offers a new approach to reconstructing Ukrainian national history by reevaluating collective identities and problematizing the meaning and role of the national factor in this history."
- Simone Attilio Bellezza (Ab Imperio)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
55 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0519-6 (9781487505196)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Andriy Zayarnyuk is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.
Content
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Archives, Manuscript Depositories, and Related Abbreviations
Abbreviations Used for Political Parties, State Offices, Associations, and Railway Divisions
List of Figures
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 Catastrophe
7. "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly"
8. Order without Law
9. Terminal for All
Coda
Bibliography
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Archives, Manuscript Depositories, and Related Abbreviations
Abbreviations Used for Political Parties, State Offices, Associations, and Railway Divisions
List of Figures
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 Catastrophe
7. "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly"
8. Order without Law
9. Terminal for All
Coda
Bibliography