![]() | The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv Subjects: L’viv (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century; L’viv (Ukraine) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; L’viv (Ukraine) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Ukraine -- L’viv -- History -- 20th century; Ethnicity -- Ukraine -- L’viv -- Hist; In 1990, months before crowds in Moscow and other major cities dismantled their monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. William Jay Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire inadvertently shaped this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union. Risch William Jay : William Jay Risch is Associate Professor of History at Georgia College and State University. |
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