Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City

By Andrii Portnov

Book Overview

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called 'new Athens', 'Ukrainian Manchester', 'the Brezhnev s capital' and 'the heart of Ukraine') is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BPM54CQ3
• ISBN13: 9798887191027
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"