A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland Paperback - 2005
by Kate Brown
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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. Brown argues that repressive national policies grew not out of chauvinist or racist ideas, but the very instruments of modern governance - the census, map, and progressive social programs - first employed by Bolshevik reformers in the western borderlands. 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." Kate Brown is Assistant Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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- Title A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
- Author Kate Brown
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 322
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 2005-09-01
- ISBN 9780674019492 / 0674019490
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.2 x 0.77 in (23.77 x 15.75 x 1.96 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Dewey Decimal Code 947.780
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