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A biography of no place [[electronic resource] ] : from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland / / Kate Brown



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Autore: Brown Kate Visualizza persona
Titolo: A biography of no place [[electronic resource] ] : from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland / / Kate Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: xii, 308 p. : maps
Disciplina: 947.7/8084
Soggetto topico: Cultural pluralism - Former Polish Eastern Territories
Soggetto geografico: Former Polish Eastern Territories History
Former Polish Eastern Territories Ethnic relations
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-296) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Inventory -- 2 Ghosts in the Bathhouse -- 3 Moving Pictures -- 4 The Power to Name -- 5 A Diary of Deportation -- 6 The Great Purges and the Rights of Man -- 7 Deportee into Colonizer -- 8 Racial Hierarchies -- Epilogue: Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. Kate 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 these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups. Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history. We are given, in short, an intimate portrait of the ethnic purification that has marked all of Europe, as well as a glimpse at the margins of twentieth-century “progress.”
Altri titoli varianti: From ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland
Titolo autorizzato: A biography of no place  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-02893-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792126403321
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