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Odessa Recollected - The Port and the People (Hardcover)
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Odessa Recollected - The Port and the People (Hardcover)
Series: Ukrainian Studies
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The present Ukrainian city of Odessa, formerly an economic asset
for the Russian Empire and a resort town for the Soviet Union,
always a non-conformist city at once rambunctious and European in
style, has become a contested area. Imperial Russian tsars and
Soviet leaders maintained an ambivalent attitude towards the
maverick city, appreciating the fame and fortune it generated, but
also leery of the activities of secret foreign national societies,
pogromists, revolutionaries, and simply the perceived lack of
patriotism in the singular city so far away from the heart of
Russia. With the withering of the lucrative grain trade by the time
of the Soviet Union, Odessa became a neglected city, drained of its
foreign flavor. With the independence of Ukraine in 1991, there
were hopes raised that the architectural beauty and economic
prospects of the city would be revived. Given the current
hostilities in Eastern Ukraine, with the potential of the Odessa
area becoming a possible land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, the
fate of the former Pearl of the Black Sea hangs in suspension.
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