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Beyond Memory
Greta Lynn Uehling
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Description for Beyond Memory
Paperback. Series: Anthropology, History and the Critical Imagination. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHM; JHMC; RBG; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
In the early morning hours of May 18, 1944 the Russian army, under orders from Stalin, deported the entire Crimean Tatar population from their historical homeland. Given only fifteen minutes to gather their belongings, they were herded into cattle cars bound for Soviet Central Asia. Although the official Soviet record was cleansed of this affair and the name of their ethnic group was erased from all records and official documents, Crimean Tatars did not assimilate with other groups or disappear. This is an ethnographic study of the negotiation of social memory and the role this had in the growth of ... Read more
In the early morning hours of May 18, 1944 the Russian army, under orders from Stalin, deported the entire Crimean Tatar population from their historical homeland. Given only fifteen minutes to gather their belongings, they were herded into cattle cars bound for Soviet Central Asia. Although the official Soviet record was cleansed of this affair and the name of their ethnic group was erased from all records and official documents, Crimean Tatars did not assimilate with other groups or disappear. This is an ethnographic study of the negotiation of social memory and the role this had in the growth of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Anthropology, History and the Critical Imagination
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403962652
SKU
V9781403962652
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About Greta Lynn Uehling
GREATA LYNN UEHLING is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, Philadelphia, USA.
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