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"This book is a local and transnational study of the twentieth-century experience of a Central European borderland city with four key forces of European and global twentieth-century history: Soviet Communism, Soviet nation-shaping (here, Ukrainization), nationalism, and Nazism. It examines a fundamental layer in the making of modern Lviv by focusing on its World-War-Two and postwar transformation from an important multi-ethnic city (formerly known, mostly, as Lw[o acute]w and Lemberg) into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center"--

Introduction / Barbara Törnquist-Plewa -- Wrocław : changes in memory narratives / Igor Pietraszewski and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa -- Between old animosity and new mourning : meanings of Czech post-communist memorials of mass killings of the Sudeten Germans / Tomas Sniegon -- Polishness as a site of memory and arena for construction of a multicultural heritage in Lʹviv / Eleonora Narvselius -- Memories of ethnic diversity in local newspapers : the 600th anniversary of Chernivtsi / Niklas Bernsand -- Zaratini : memories and absence of the Italian community of Zadar / Tea Sindbaek -- Echo of silence : memory, politics and heritage in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, a case study: Višegrad / Dragan Nikolic -- Comparative remarks and conclusions / Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.