A biography of no place : from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland / Kate Brown.

"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 mig...

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Main Author: Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2004.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: 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.