A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
by Brown, Kate
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0674019490
- ISBN 13
- 9780674019492
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Harvard University Press, 2005 8vo (23.5 cm) XIV, 310 pp. Laminated wrappers. "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. 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." (from the publisher's description)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006925
- Title
- A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
- Author
- Brown, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0674019490
- ISBN 13
- 9780674019492
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Poland
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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