Borderland City: Kharkiv

The article attempts to identify Kharkiv’s place on the mental map of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and traces the changing image of the city in Ukrainian and Russian narratives up to the end of the twentieth century. The author explores the role of Kharkiv in the symbolic reconfiguration...

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Main Authors: Volodymyr Kravchenko, Marta Olynyk (trans.)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies 2020-04-01
Series:East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Online Access:https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/572
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Summary:The article attempts to identify Kharkiv’s place on the mental map of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and traces the changing image of the city in Ukrainian and Russian narratives up to the end of the twentieth century. The author explores the role of Kharkiv in the symbolic reconfiguration of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland and describes how the interplay of imperial, national, and local contexts left an imprint on the city’s symbolic space.
ISSN:2292-7956