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Author Portnov, Andriĭ, author.

Title Dnipro : an entangled history of a European city / Andrii Portnov
Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ukrainian studies
Ukrainian studies (Boston, Mass.)
Contents Introduction: "The Unfinished City" and Its Histories -- The Potemkin City -- Manchester on the Dnipro -- The Symphony of Revolutions -- The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk -- A City at War -- Brezhnev's Capital -- Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two
Summary "This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro locates the city in regional, national, and transnational context. The history of a 'Ukrainian Manchester' is seen through the prism of 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-370) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2023)
Subject HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
SUBJECT Dnipro (Ukraine) -- History
Subject Ukraine -- Dnipro
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022033370
ISBN 9798887190334
9798887190327
9789798887192
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