Lviv's Uncertain Destination

Andriy Zayarnyuk is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionArchives, Manuscript Depositories, and Related AbbreviationsAbbreviations Used for Political Parties, State Offices, Associations, and Railway DivisionsList of Figures1. City Gates of the Steam Age2. The Shape of Things to Come3. Steal, Stone, Sweat, and Imagination4. Inter Arma5. Virtuti Militari6. The Catastrophe7. "We Shall Rebuild Splendidly"8. Order without Law9. Terminal for AllCodaBibliography

"This is a book that gives as much attention to those ‘little purposes’ of everyday life as it does to the grand visions of political regimes. It subjects conventional understandings of grand historical narratives to the messy, contingent, personal and entangled projects that animate experiences of public space, social order and identity in everyday life. In so doing, it challenges and reimagines the terms in which a city’s histories and geographies can be told."- Shawn Bodden (Eurasian Geography and Economics) "Even to readers not specializing in the history of Lviv or Ukraine, the book offers interesting insights and observations regarding the construction of the rhetoric of belonging by the changing design of Lviv’s railway terminal, as well as the history of railway workers. Zayarnyuk offers a new approach to reconstructing Ukrainian national history by reevaluating collective identities and problematizing the meaning and role of the national factor in this history."- Simone Attilio Bellezza (Ab Imperio)