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Moving in the USSR
Author | : Pekka Hakamies |
Publsiher | : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789518580235 |
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This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula. Finns from Karelia emigrated to Finland, most of the Jews of Podolia were exterminated by Nazi Germany but the survivors later emigrated to Israel, and the sparsely populated territory beyond the Polar circle received the Societ conquerors of nature which they began to exploit. The empty areas were usually settled by planned state recruitment of relocated Soviet citizens, but in some cases also by spontaneous movement. Thus, a Ukrainian took over a Jewish house, a Chuvash kolkhos was dispersed along Finnish khutor houses, and youth in the town of Apatity began to prefer their home town in relation to the cities of Russia. Everywhere the settlers met new and strange surroundings, and they had to construct places and meanings for themselves in their new home and restructure their local identity in relation to their places of origin and current abodes. They also had to create images of the former inhabitants and explanations for various strange details they preceived around themselves. All articles within this volume are based on extensive field or archive work. This research project was funded by the Academy of Finland.
The Forsaken
Author | : Tim Tzouliadis |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781440637032 |
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“Gripping and important . . . an extremely impressive book.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph (London) A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to "corrective labor" camps where they will be worked to death. This book is the story of lives-the forsaken who died and those who survived. Based on groundbreaking research, The Forsaken is the story of Americans whose dreams were shattered and lives lost in Stalinist Russia.
The Forsaken
Author | : Tim Tzouliadis |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2011-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780748130313 |
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Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality, and honest labour. What in fact awaited them, however, was the most monstrous betrayal. In a remarkable piece of historical investigation that spans seven decades of political change, Tim Tzouliadis follows these thousands from Pittsburgh and Detroit and Los Angeles, as their numbers dwindle on their epic and terrible journey. Through official records, memoirs, newspaper reports and interviews he searches the most closely guarded archive in modern history to reconstruct their story - one of honesty, vitality and idealism brought up against the brutal machinery of repression. His account exposes the self-serving American diplomats who refused their countrymen sanctuary, it analyses international relations and economic causes but also finds space to retrieve individual acts of kindness and self-sacrifice.
Communism on Tomorrow Street
Author | : Steven E. Harris |
Publsiher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421405660 |
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This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers. Communism on Tomorrow Street also demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the “housing question” that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR.
Shelter from the Holocaust
Author | : Atina Grossmann,Mark Edele,Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publsiher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814342688 |
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The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author | : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780393806 |
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Sovereignty After Empire
Author | : Galina Vasilevna Starovotova |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Conflict management |
ISBN | : IND:30000050449705 |
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Postcommunist Film Russia Eastern Europe and World Culture
Author | : Lars Kristensen |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781136475559 |
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A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by national state borders, and examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism within film. The book examines different national cinemas and dissimilar cinematic modes - from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese independent cinema; from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of Mozambique - all formulated as within the postcommunist condition. It considers the postcommunist film in terms of transnational and World cinema. It covers a wide range of films from small and independent filmmaking to mainstream, popular cinema, and explains post-communist signifiers as manifested in visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist countries.