Zayarnyuk, Andriy.

Lviv’s Uncertain Destination : A City and Its Train Terminal from Franz Joseph I to Brezhnev. - 1 online resource (391 pages)

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Names -- Archives, Manuscript Depositories, and Related Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Political Parties, State Offices, Associations, and Railway Divisions and Departments -- Introduction -- 1. City Gates of the Steam Age -- 2. The Shape of Things to Come -- 3. Steel, Stone, Sweat, and Imagination -- 4. Inter Arma -- 5. Virtuti Mil -- 6. The Catastrophe -- 7. "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly -- 8. Order without Law -- 9. The Terminal for All -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book re-examines the history of twentieth-century Lviv by focusing on the city's main railway terminal. It approaches the terminal as an embodiment of the city's built environment and a microcosm of society.

9781487531720


L�viv (Ukraine)-History-20th century.


Electronic books.

DK508.95.L86 .Z393 2020

947.79