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Record Nr.

UNINA9910720872103321

Autore

Chakars Melissa

Titolo

Socialist Way of Life in Siberia : Transformation in Buryatia / / Melissa Chakars

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Disciplina

957/.5

Soggetti

Social change - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Social change - Russia (Federation) - Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡

Buriats - Politics and government

Buriats - Social conditions

Buriats - Social life and customs

Socialism - Social aspects - Russia (Federation) - Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡

Siberia (Russia) Social conditions

Siberia (Russia) Ethnic relations

Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Modernization and Soviet success -- Institutions and the culture of progress -- Buryat exceptionalism and advancement -- Outline of chapters -- The Buryats of Siberia : from imperial Russia to the Soviet state -- Stalinism in Buryatia -- The new Buryats -- Education for change -- Buryat literature for a new society -- A means to modernity : newspapers, radio, and television -- Reform, but what kind? -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest Indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century: challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.