Empires
Empires – structures that link and incorporate peoples and territories in unequal relationships of power and which rely on subjugation — have shaped much of human history from the ancient world to the present. Studying empires can help reveal how imperialist ideology and practices developed over time and how they impacted the subjects of imperial rule. Empires produced complex political, cultural, and economic infrastructure, and East-Central European nations often evolved within, or contrary to, empires’ structure. Our Educational Platform offers materials that help to characterize imperialism in the region and the peculiarity of power, including its political, economic, cultural, and social facets. The collection presents a variety of lived experiences that were brought on by these imperial structures. We focus on relations between metropolises and colonies, nations and nationalism, imperial cities, colonialism, and postcolonial heritage.
Primary Sources
![Image for Christmas and Easter in Lemberg in 1908: The Case of One Multidenominational Family](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image00047-768x637.jpg)
![Image for The pornography trade in Kyiv in the early 1900s](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Figure-1-768x428.jpg)
![Image for Excerpt from “Lists of Settlements. Kherson Governorate” of 1868](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Znimok-ekrana-2023-06-30-143836.png)
![Image for Sejm Discussion about the Role of Ukrainians in the General Regional Exhibition in Galicia in 1894](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSSG_tytul-768x1102.jpg)
![Image for View on the Monument to the Soviet Constitution, Lviv 1940](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5954_ca_object_representations_media_3012_large.jpg)
![Image for Advertising leaflet of Zofia Biesiadetska’s bureau](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Image-01-768x1135.jpg)
![Image for For the Family Hearth, a 1970 film](https://edu.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/dla-vohnyshcha-768x568.png)