9780674011687-0674011686-A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland

ISBN-13: 9780674011687
ISBN-10: 0674011686
Author: Kate Brown
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 322 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674011687
ISBN-10: 0674011686
Author: Kate Brown
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 322 pages

Summary

A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (ISBN-13: 9780674011687 and ISBN-10: 0674011686), written by authors Kate Brown, was published by Harvard University Press in 2004. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other European History books. You can easily purchase or rent A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used European History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.01.

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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.

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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