Dnipro : An Entangled History of a European City (Ukrainian Studies)

Portnov, Andrii

Academic Studies Press（2022/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 374 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798887191027
• DDC分類 947.74

Full Description

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

This 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.

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