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A Biography of No Place : From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland / Kate Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674028937
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.7/8084
LOC classification:
  • DK500.F67 ǂb B76 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)