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- ISBN 9780801453915
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and fundamental transformation ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, Tarik Cyril Amar explains a striking paradox: Soviet rule, which came to Lviv in ruthless Stalinist shape and lasted for half a century, left behind the most Ukrainian version of the city in history. In reconstructing this dramatically profound change, Amar illuminates the historical background in present-day identities and tensions within Ukraine.
Tarik Cyril Amar is Associate Professor in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koc University.
