Paradox Illusions
Andriy Zayarnyuk
2/2016
Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv:
A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015). 368 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5391-5
SUMMARY:
In his extensive review, Andriy Zayarnyuk challenges the main thesis of Tarik Cyril Amar’s book The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv – that the Soviet regime purposefully promoted the Ukrainization of L’viv in the wake of World War II, at the expense of the formerly predominant Polish and Jewsh national cultures. Zayarnyuk also charges Amar with poor handling of primary sources.