Stadtgeschichten – Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte osteuropäischer Städte von Prag bis Baku

Benjamin Conrad; Lisa Bicknell

doi:10.14361/9783839432747

Summary

25 years after the fall of the wall and ten years after the eastward expansion of the EU – these politically significant events have also fundamentally altered historical research on Eastern Europe. The extent to which the contributors to this volume have benefitted as a result of the establishment of historical cultural studies, the opening of previously sealed archives and more importantly, from a hitherto unknown freedom of movement, is shown in their urban histories: based on cultural-historical interrogations into »museification« and monumentalization, on representativeness or multiculturalism in the Eastern European urban sphere, they offer insights into the history of metropolises like Prague, Baku, Moscow or St Petersburg, and regional centers like Lviv or Irkutsk.