Cities after the fall of communism:reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity
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Woodrow Wilson Center Press Johns Hopkins University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. Baltimore |
Publication Dates: | c2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 368 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801891915 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801891914 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | TU984 |
CLC: | TU984.51 |
Call Number: | TU984.51/C581 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The changing face of Vilnius : from capital to administrative center and back / Irena Vaisvilaite -- The Novgorod model : creating a European past in Russia / Nicolai N. Petro -- Wrocław's search for a new historical narrative : from polonocentrism to postmodernism / Gregor Thum -- Mapping Tallinn after communism : modernist architecture as representation of a small nation / Jörg Hackmann -- The persuasive power of the Odessa myth / Oleg Gubar and Patricia Herlihy -- Traveling today through Sevastopol's past : postcommunist continuity in a "Ukrainian" cityscape / Karl D. Qualls -- Locating Kaliningrad/Königsberg on the map of Europe : "a Russia in Europe" or "a Europe in Russia"? / Olga Sezneva -- Kharkiv : a borderland city / Volodymyr Kravchenko -- L'viv in search of its identity : transformations of the city's public space / Liliana Hentosh and Bohdan Tscherkes -- Łódź in the postcommunist era : in search of a new identity / Joanna Michlic -- Szczecin's identity after 1989 : a local turn / Jan Musekamp -- Conclusion: Cities after the fall / Nida Gelazis, Blair A. Ruble, and John Czaplicka. |