| Description |
1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Far from heaven -- The missing Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv -- Sketches from the capital -- Soviet ways, post-Soviet days -- Historical memory -- The center of Kyiv -- A geography of privilege and pretension -- Landscapes of struggle -- "Suburbia" -- Seamy stories -- The defenders of Kyiv -- Reflections |
| Summary |
The unrest and violence in Ukraine shocked the world, and the region's long-term future remains troublingly uncertain. Focusing on the difficulty of Kiev's transition from socialism to market democracy, this book demonstrates how Ukraine reached this turbulent point. Roman Adrian Cybriwsky delves deeply into the changing social geography of the city, recent urban development, and critical problems such as official corruption, inequality, sex tourism, and the heedless destruction of the city's historical architecture--all difficulties that have contributed incrementally to Ukrainian citizens' anger against their government. This thoroughly revised edition offers the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened--and what is likely still to come--in Ukraine |
| Analysis |
Kyiv, postsocialist cities, urban development, urban societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-347) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban communities.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Urban communities.
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| SUBJECT |
Kyïv (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century
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Kyïv (Ukraine) -- History -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Ukraine -- Kyïv
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048523405 |
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9048523400 |
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9789048523412 |
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9048523419 |
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