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Ukrainian intelligentsia in post-Soviet Lʹviv [electronic resource]

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This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. Being anchored to sociological theories on intellectual autonomy and empowerment through narrativization, it approaches daily practices, situations and popular narratives which bring insight into everyday concerns and motivations of the educated Western Ukrainians.

Title Ukrainian intelligentsia in post-Soviet Lʹviv [electronic resource] : narratives, identity, and power / Eleonora Narvselius.
Publisher Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books
Creation Date c2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1 Approaching Intelligentsia
2 Intelligentsia and Problematics of Culture, Nation, Class, and Power
3 A Historical Stage for Intelligentsia's Projects: Polyethnic, Multicultural, Nationalist Daily L'viv
4 Incarnations of the Protagonist: Old Intelligentsia-New Intelligentsia-Pseudo-Intelligentsia-Non-Intelligentsia
5 Between Kham and Knight: The L'viv Intelligentsia's "Others" and Alter Egos
6 Intelligentsia's Spaces in L'viv
7 Empowering Projects of the L'viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about L'viv's Centrality and Peripherality8 Empowering Projects of the L'viv Intelligentsia and Intellectuals after the End of Soviet Rule: Narratives about (Be)longing, Ambiguity, and Cultural Colonization
9 Opening a Pandora's Box: Collective Memories and "Blank Spots" of the Ukrainian Past in Historical Narratives of the L'viv Intelligentsia
Conclusion: Intelligentsia in L'viv: The Power of Location and Narration
Appendix: List of Informants
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Extent 1 online resource (433 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997011504737705171
MARC RECORDS
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