Description: Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv's rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.
Brief description:
Serhiy Bilenky is a research fellow in at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has taught at Columbia University and Harvard University's Ukrainian Research Institute.
Review Quotes:
"Bilenky's history of Kyiv is probing, timely, and heady."
--Steven Seegal, University of Northern Colorado, Slavic Review, vol 78 no 2"This detailed and thoroughly studied examination of Kyiv's urbanism addresses an important gap in the contemporary scholarship on Ukraine's modern history. Thanks to its methodological approach and comparative references, Kyiv's modernism is set into a wider perspective of Europe's urban development."
--Olena Palko, University of London, European History Quarterly"This well-researched monograph is an excellent starting point for all further work and will be of great interest to both specialists and the general public alike."
--Fabian Baumann, University of Basel, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian StudiesBR>"Bilenky creates his detailed image of the city thanks to painstaking study of a multitude of published and unpublished sources. His archival research sheds light on various aspects, especially municipal administration, urban planning, the social structure, and the real estate market. The result is enjoyable reading that adds substantively to our knowledge of Kyiv and Ukrainian society in the nineteenth century."
--Johannes Remy, University of Helsinki, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal