In the Soviet House of Culture A Century of Perestroikas

Name: In the Soviet House of Culture A Century of Perestroikas
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ISBN: 9780691044323

ISBN-10: 0691044325

ISBN-13: 9780691044323

Edition: 1996

Authors: Bruce Grant

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At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that followed would transform them dramatically. While Russian missionaries hounded them for their pagan ways, Lenin praised them; while Stalin routed them in purges, Khrushchev gave them respite; and while Brezhnev organized complex resettlement campaigns, Gorbachev pronounced that they were free to resume a traditional life. But what is tradition after seven decades of building a Soviet world? Based on years of research in the former Soviet Union, Bruce Grant's book draws upon Nivkh interviews, newly…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration and Terminology


List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Rybnoe Reconstructed



Nivkhi before the Soviets



1920s and the New Order



The Stalinist Period



1960s Resettlements and the Time of Stagnation



Perestroika Revisited: On Dissolution and Disillusion



Conclusions: The Subjects Presumed to Know



"A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage"


Notes


Bibliography


Index