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Biography of No Place

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Description for Biography of No Place Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 322 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.

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.

Kate Brown’s study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674019492
SKU
V9780674019492
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About Kate Brown
Kate Brown is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Reviews for Biography of No Place
A Biography of No Place is one of the most original and imaginative works of history to emerge in the western literature on the former Soviet Union in the last ten years. Historiographically fearless, Kate Brown writes with elegance and force, turning this history of a lost, but culturally rich borderland into a compelling narrative that serves as a microcosm ... Read more

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