In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.

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Community life in Cherche, a village 80 miles south of Lvov, is strong.

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On the same day, a provisional government succeeded with Prince Georgi Lvov as president and Pavel Miliukov as foreign minister.

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Some of the most impressively vocal and active students come from Lvov's independent theological academy, where the rector, Borys Gudziak, is an American.

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