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Title

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

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Czaplicka, John.
• Gelazis, Nida M.
• Ruble, Blair A., 1949-

Description

x, 368 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning ofcities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume show how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays demonstrate that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts. Ultimately, the editors argue that one can see a "New Europe" taking shape in these cities, in which a strained discourse between different versions of the past and variously envisioned futures is being set in stone, steel, and glass."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Europe, Eastern
• Post-communism > Europe, Eastern
• Architecture > Europe, Eastern
• City planning > Europe, Eastern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. What time is this place? : locating the postsocialist city / Nida Gelazis, John Czaplicka and 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 and 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 and 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 and John Czaplicka.

ISBN

• 9780801891915 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801891914 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008036155

OCLC

• ocn244246650
• 244246650
• SCSB-9240899

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries