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Ethnography
Evenks
Fishery
Fishing
Great Leap Forward
Group marriage
Hammer and sickle
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples of Siberia
Khabarovsk
Kolkhoz
Kulak
Labor camp
Lecture
Leonid Brezhnev
Literature
Manchuria
Marjorie
Marxism-Leninism
Mikhail Gorbachev
Modernity
Month
Narrative
Nationality
New Society
Newspaper
Nikita Khrushchev
Nivkh people
Nogliki
Pensioner
Perestroika
Plural
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Primitivism
Ruble
Russian Far East
Russian language
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russians
Russo-Japanese War
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Soviet Union
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The Other Hand
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Walter Benjamin
World War II
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Yuri Slezkine
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- ISBN 9780691044323
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Oct 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Bruce Grant is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College.
