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Book SynopsisThis book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city's main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city's built environment and a microcosm of society.
Trade Review"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 *
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"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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
