Introduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories

1. The Potemkin City

2. Manchester on the Dnipro

3. The Symphony of Revolutions

4. The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk

5. A City at War 

6. Brezhnev’s Capital

Epilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two 

Bibliography

Index

"This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro locates the city in regional, national, and transnational context. The history of a 'Ukrainian Manchester' is seen through the prism of the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine"--

Andrii Portnov is Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). He graduated
from Dnipro and Warsaw Universities, and defended his PhD dissertation in Lviv. He conducted research and lectured in
Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Brussels, Cambridge, Geneva, Lyon, Paris, Potsdam, and Vienna. His publications are devoted to
intellectual history, historiography, genocide, and memory studies in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.