Biography of No Place From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland

Name: Biography of No Place From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
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ISBN: 9780674019492

ISBN-10: 0674019490

ISBN-13: 9780674019492

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kate Brown

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This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed. Brown's study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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Glossary


Introduction



Inventory



Ghosts in the Bathhouse



Moving Pictures



The Power to Name



A Diary of Deportation



The Great Purges and the Rights of Man



Deportee into Colonizer



Racial Hierarchies Epilogue: Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities


Notes


Archival Sources


Acknowledgments


Index