Lwów or Lviv?

Two Uprisings in 1918

Damian Markowski, Jerzy Giebultowski

• Editorial: Peter Lang Group
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9783631845455
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: History
• Categoría: European History

In the Fall of 1918 it became clear the Polish-Ukrainian ethnic borderlands would become a battlefield for the two nations. Both wanted to incorporate the disputed territory.

On November 1 st 1918, Ukrainian conspirators managed a successful military and political coup, taking control of Lviv with hardly any bloodshed. Several hours afterwards, Polish underground forces already began preparing a counterattack. A few days later, front lines stretched across the city. The fighting concluded on November 22 nd with a Ukrainian retreat and an ethnic cleansing of the local Jewish population.

The events that took place in Lviv in November 1918 to this day remain at the epicenter of Polish-Ukrainian conflict. The book tackles the themes of this unrest and its symptoms, from the 1920s to present day.

Índice

• Cover
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One: Before the Shots Were Fired
• Chapter Two  
• Chapter Three: The ‘Eaglets’ on the Victorious Path (4–9 November)
• Chapter Four: The New Spirit of the Ukrainian Army (10–12 November)
• Chapter Five: Will Lviv Fall? The Ukrainian Offensive (13–17 November)
• Chapter Six: Before the Final Deal (18‒20 November)
• Chapter Seven: Whose Is Lviv Going to Be? The Decisive 24 Hours (21 November)
• Chapter Eight: Freedom’s Bloody Shadow (22‒24 November)
• Chapter Nine: The Conflict of Memory Over the November Uprisings
• Instead of an Ending
• Glossary
• List of Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Illustration Sources