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Cities after the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity / edited by John Czaplicka, Nida Gelazis, and Blair A. Ruble.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801891914
  • 9780801891915
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.760947 22
LOC classification:
  • HT145.E75 C57 2009
Contents:
Introduction What time is this place? : locating the postsocialist city / Nida Gelazis, John Czaplicka, Blair A. Ruble -- 1. The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back / Irena Vaisvilaite -- 2. The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia / Nicolai N. Petro -- 3. Wroclaw's search for a new historical narrative : from Polonocentrism to postmodernism / Gregor Thum -- 4. Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation / Jorg Hackmann -- 5. The persuasive power of the Odessa myth / Oleg Gubar, Patricia Herlihy -- 6. Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape / Karl D. Qualls -- 7. Locating Kaliningrad /Konigsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"? / Olga Sezneva -- 8. Kharkiv : a borderland city / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- 9. L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space / Liliana Hentosh, Bohdan Tscherkes -- 10. Lodz in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity / Joanna Michlic -- 11. Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn / Jan Musekamp -- Conclusion: Cities after the fall / Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble, John Czaplicka.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction What time is this place? : locating the postsocialist city / Nida Gelazis, John Czaplicka, Blair A. Ruble -- 1. The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back / Irena Vaisvilaite -- 2. The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia / Nicolai N. Petro -- 3. Wroclaw's search for a new historical narrative : from Polonocentrism to postmodernism / Gregor Thum -- 4. Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation / Jorg Hackmann -- 5. The persuasive power of the Odessa myth / Oleg Gubar, Patricia Herlihy -- 6. Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape / Karl D. Qualls -- 7. Locating Kaliningrad /Konigsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"? / Olga Sezneva -- 8. Kharkiv : a borderland city / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- 9. L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space / Liliana Hentosh, Bohdan Tscherkes -- 10. Lodz in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity / Joanna Michlic -- 11. Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn / Jan Musekamp -- Conclusion: Cities after the fall / Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble, John Czaplicka.

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