TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Claire L.
TI  - Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 
SN  - 9781501713798
AV  - HV2783 
U1  - 305.908209470904 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Deaf culture
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Deaf
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - Disability Studies
KW  - Soviet & East European History
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - deafness and disability, USSR, Soviet ideology, Soviet history, Soviet identity, Soviet welfare state, political identity of deaf people in urban Russia
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration and Terminology --; Glossary and Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Revolutionizing Deafness --; 2. Making the Deaf Soviet --; 3. War and Reconstruction --; 4. The Golden Age --; 5. Pygmalion --; 6. Deaf-Soviet Identity in Decline --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography of Primary Sources --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively— by a vibrant and independent community of deaf people who engaged in complex ways with Soviet ideology.Deaf in the USSR engages with a wide range of sources from both deaf and hearing perspectives—archival sources, films and literature, personal memoirs, and journalism—to build a multilayered history of deafness. This book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history and disability studies as well as those in the international deaf community who are interested in their collective heritage. Deaf in the USSR will also enjoy a broad readership among those who are interested in deafness and disability as a key to more inclusive understandings of being human and of language, society, politics, and power
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713798
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501713798
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501713798/original
ER  -