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.
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.
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
Andriy Zayarnyuk is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.
"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."
*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."
*Ab Imperio*
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