Everything is Wonderful

Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia

Sigrid Rausing (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Verlag)
978-0-8021-2296-4 (ISBN)

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From 1993 to 1994, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the penninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watchtowers dotted the coastline, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were laying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners who had fled war and Soviet and Nazi occupation. Rausing's research focused on the loss of historical memory during the Soviet occupation, and the slow revival of an independent Estonian culture, including the recognition of the minority Swedes in Estonia. She lived and worked amongst the villagers, witnessing their transition from repression to independence, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity.

Sigrid Rausing is a writer, philanthropist, anthropologist, and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust and publisher of "Granta" and Granta Books. She has won several awards for her work in philanthropy and human rights, serves on the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, and is an emeritus member of the international board of Human Rights Watch.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.4.2016
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Russland
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8021-2296-5 / 0802122965
ISBN-13	978-0-8021-2296-4 / 9780802122964
Zustand	Neuware