Open AccessBorderland City: Kharkiv
Author(s) -
Volodymyr Kravchenko,
Marta Olynyk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
east/west
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-7956
DOI - 10.21226/ewjus572
Subject(s) - ukrainian , empire , narrative , soviet union , space (punctuation) , history , political science , ancient history , literature , law , art , linguistics , philosophy , politics
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.