Abstract
Present-day inhabitants of Lviv often combine a certain nostalgia for their city’smultinational past under Habsburg rule with a stress on its Ukrainian nature. ThatUkrainian Lviv was created at the expense of the Jewish population murdered by theGerman occupiers and their local collaborators during World War II and the Polishpopulation expelled by the Soviets afterwards, is not part of the city’s official identity.And reflections on the Soviet period are often reduced to black or white narratives—either presenting Soviet rule as a criminal occupation committed by externalperpetrators or celebrating Soviet victory over fascism, Polish bourgeois oppression,and backwardness. DOI: 10.25285/2078-1938-2018-10-1-135-138
Highlights
The first two chapters provide the reader with a fast-track summary of the city’s multinational period, including the time of the first Soviet rule between 1939 and 1941
The growing interethnic tension and military conflict of this period did not result in the same drastic demographic changes as in the decades following, adding this context is helpful in regards to the questions of continuity and discontinuity raised in later chapters and as a prelude to the ethnical cleansing on a large scale. When it comes to numbers and details on the Holocaust, Amar relies on the expertise of colleagues like Dieter Pohl (1996, 2000), Christoph Mick (2010, 2011), and John-Paul Himka (2011), without avoiding controversial subjects, like the Lviv pogrom of July 1941 and local collaboration by both Ukrainians and Poles
There is some truth in the “paradox” that it was the fiercest enemy of Ukrainian nationalism who at least “helped” to complete the dream of a Ukrainian Lviv
Summary
The first two chapters provide the reader with a fast-track summary of the city’s multinational period, including the time of the first Soviet rule between 1939 and 1941. Present-day inhabitants of Lviv often combine a certain nostalgia for their city’s multinational past under Habsburg rule with a stress on its Ukrainian nature.
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