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Dnipro : An Entangled History of a European City / Andrii Portnov.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ukrainian StudiesPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]Copyright date: 2022Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9798887190327
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.7/4 23/eng/20220713
LOC classification:
  • DK508.95.D64 P665 2022
  • DK508.95.D64
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories -- 1 The Potemkin City -- 2 Manchester on the Dnipro -- 3 The Symphony of Revolutions -- 4 The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk -- 5 A City at War -- 6 Brezhnev’s Capital -- Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories -- 1 The Potemkin City -- 2 Manchester on the Dnipro -- 3 The Symphony of Revolutions -- 4 The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk -- 5 A City at War -- 6 Brezhnev’s Capital -- Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two -- Bibliography -- Index

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Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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