Tarik Cyril Amar

Assistant Professor, History Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Amar specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, Russia, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century, with special attention to Ukraine and to urban history. His dissertation “The Making of Soviet Lviv” focuses on the often violent twentieth-century transformations of a borderland city also known as Lwów, Lvov, and Lemberg.

Borderlands of the Past: Lviv’s Soviet History of the Present

A presentation of part of my current manuscript on Lviv, from the chapter dealing with Soviet constructions of what I call an “unsimple” past for Lviv, that is, 20th-century narratives linking Lviv’s deeper (and simpler) past with Soviet teleology.