LEADER 03881nam 2200553 450 001 9910818847903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3821-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501738210 035 $a(CKB)4100000008152837 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5763935 035 $a(OCoLC)1056202912 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74549 035 $a(DE-B1597)527389 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501738210 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5763935 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008152837 100 $a20190520d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVoices from the Soviet edge $esouthern migrants in Leningrad and Moscow /$fJeff Sahadeo 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) 311 $a1-5017-3820-8 311 $a1-5017-3822-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tNote on Terminology --$tIntroduction: Journeys to the Core(s) --$t1. Global, Soviet Cities --$t2. Friendship, Freedom, Mobility, and the Elder Brother --$t3. Making a Place in the Two Capitals --$t4. Race and Racism --$t5. Becoming Svoi: Belonging in the Two Capitals --$t6. Life on the Margins --$t7. Perestroika --$tConclusion: Red or Black? --$tAppendix: Oral Histories --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as "Blacks" by some Russians, transformed their families' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the "two capitals. "Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as "friendship of peoples" alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migrant aspirations. He exposes the Brezhnev era as a time of dynamism and opportunity, and Leningrad and Moscow not as isolated outposts of privilege but at the heart of any number of systems that linked the disparate regions of the USSR into a whole. In the 1980's, as the Soviet Union crumbled, migration increased. These later migrants were the forbears of contemporary Muslims from former Soviet spaces who now confront significant discrimination in European Russia. As Sahadeo demonstrates, the two cities benefited from 1980's' migration but also became communities where racism and exclusion coexisted with citizenship and Soviet identity. 606 $aMigration, Internal$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aMigration, Internal$zCaucasus, South$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMigration, Internal$zAsia, Central$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSaint Petersburg (Russia)$xEthnic relations 607 $aMoscow (Russia)$xEthnic relations 615 0$aMigration, Internal$xHistory. 615 0$aMigration, Internal$xHistory 615 0$aMigration, Internal$xHistory 676 $a304.809470904 700 $aSahadeo$b Jeff$f1967-$01648556 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818847903321 996 $aVoices from the Soviet edge$93996792 997 $aUNINA