Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- 1. Kaleidoscopic Odessa -- On the Edges and Afterlives of Empires -- A Cosmopolitan Place -- Kaleidoscopic History -- History in an Eastern European Borderland -- From Textbooks to Talking Streets -- 2. Uncertain Subjects: Youth, History, and Nation -- Lessons in History -- Home Truths -- On Knowing History: The Holocaust -- Talking History, Talking Politics -- 3. Living History and the Afterlives of States -- Remembered Lives, Remembered History -- Everyone had their own war': Remembering the Second World War in Odessa -- 4. On Odessa's Kolorit and the Place(s) of Moldovanka -- History in Place -- Moldovanka at the Margins and the Centre -- Courtyards and Markets as Places of Kolorit -- Touring Moldovanka and the Performativity of Place -- 5. Walking Streets, Talking History: The Making of Odessa -- The My Odessa Club -- Walking the Streets of Old Odessa -- Mapping History, Making Place -- Disputing History -- Odessa as Courtyard -- Transforming Cityscape, Transforming Society -- Walking the City, Making the Self -- 6. Between Cosmopolitan and Provincial: Spaces of History and the Place of Odes(s)a -- Spaces of History -- The Odessa Literature Museum -- A Jewish Capital in a Provincial Town -- Ukrainian History in a 'Non-Ukrainian City' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state.

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