In the Soviet House of Culture (eBook)

A Century of Perestroikas

Bruce Grant (Autor)

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2020
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21970-7 (ISBN)

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At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that followed would transform them dramatically. While Russian missionaries hounded them for their pagan ways, Lenin praised them; while Stalin routed them in purges, Khrushchev gave them respite; and while Brezhnev organized complex resettlement campaigns, Gorbachev pronounced that they were free to resume a traditional life. But what is tradition after seven decades of building a Soviet world? Based on years of research in the former Soviet Union, Bruce Grant's book draws upon Nivkh interviews, newly opened archives, and rarely translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity. With a keen sensitivity, Grant explores the often paradoxical participation by Nivkhi in these shifting waves of Sovietization and poses questions about how cultural identity is constituted and reconstituted, restructured and dismantled. Part chronicle of modernization, part saga of memory and forgetting, In the Soviet House of Culture is an interpretive ethnography of one people's attempts to recapture the past as they look toward the future. This is a book that will appeal to anthropologists and historians alike, as well as to anyone who is interested in the people and politics of the former Soviet Union.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 14 halftones,
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ado-Tymovo • Aeroflot • affair • Aleksandrovich • Aleksandrovsk • Artel • Backwardness • Bakery • Battleship Potemkin • Benjamin, Walter • black hundreds • Boarding School • bolsheviks • Brezhnev, Leonid • bureaucrat • Capitalism • chairman • Chaivo • Chir-Unvd • Chuner Taksami • Churka, Aleksei • Colonialism • Colonization • Committee of the North • comrade • culture bases • distrust • Dostoevskii, Fedor • Down with Illiteracy Society • Engels, Frederick • Era of Stagnation • ethnography • European Russia • evenki • Evenks • Far Eastern Republic • fishery • Fishing • George Kennan (explorer) • Gorbachev, Mikhail • Great Leap Forward • group marriage • hammer and sickle • Hawes, Charles • hegemony • Humphrey, Caroline • Indigenous peoples • Indigenous peoples of Siberia • industrialisation • Iuzhno-Sakhalinsk • Karafuto • Khabarovsk • Khrushchev, Nikita • Kolkhoz • Kreinovich, Erukhim A. • Kulak • labor camp • Lazarev • Lecture • Leonid Brezhnev • Literacy • Literature • Manchuria • Manifesto • Marjorie • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • Marx, Karl • Mikhail Gorbachev • Missionary • Modernity • month • Nanaitsy • narrative • Nationality • Nekrasovka • new society • newspaper • Nikita Khrushchev • Nivkh people • nkvd • Nogliki • Okha • Pakskun, Grigorii • peasant • Pension • Pensioner • People's Committee (postwar Korea) • Perestroika • Plural • Pogibi • Politics • Primitivism • raion • Requirement • Romanovka • ruble • Russian culture • Russian Far East • Russian Language • Russian Republic • russians • Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic • Russo-Japanese war • Rybnoe • Rybnovsk • Sakhalin • salary • Shamanism • Siberia • socialist state • Sociocultural evolution • Soldiers of Culture • Sovietization • Soviet Union • Stalinism • Supervisor • Tax • Tengi • The Most Extreme • The Other Hand • typewriter • Udegeitsy • Uncertainty • V. • Vegetable • Vereshchagino • Vladivostok • vodka • Voting • Walter Benjamin • World War II • Writing • year • Yuri Slezkine
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21970-2 / 0691219702
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21970-7 / 9780691219707