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ISBN
9780674019492
Subject Area
History
Publication Name
Biography of No Place : from Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Subject
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / General
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Item Height
0.8 in
Author
Kate Brown
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
322 Pages
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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. 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."

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674019490
ISBN-13
9780674019492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45868815

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Number of Pages
322 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Biography of No Place : from Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Author
Kate Brown
Format
Perfect

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Samuel Butler and Kate Brown have something in common. Both have written about Erewhon with imagination and flair. I was captivated by the courage and enterprise behind this book. Is there a way to write a history of events that do not make rational sense? Kate Brown asks. She proceeds to give us a stunning answer., Kate Brown tells the story of how succeeding regimes transformed a onetime multiethnic borderland into a far more ethnically homogeneous region through their often murderous imperialist and nationalist projects. She writes evocatively of the inhabitants' frequently challenged identities and livelihoods and gives voice to their aspirations and laments, including Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, and Russians. A Biography of No Place is a provocative meditation on the meanings of periphery and center in the writing of history., A Biography of No Place is one of the most original and imaginative works of history to emerge in the western literature on the former Soviet Union in the last ten years. Historiographically fearless, Kate Brown writes with elegance and force, turning this history of a lost, but culturally rich borderland into a compelling narrative that serves as a microcosm for understanding nation and state in the Twentieth Century. With compassion and respect for the diverse people who inhabited this margin of territory between Russia and Poland, Kate Brown restores the voices, memories, and humanity of a people lost.
Illustrated
Yes
Lc Classification Number
Dk500.F67b76 2005
Table of Content
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

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