A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet HeartlandThis 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Inventory | 18 |
Ghosts in the Bathhouse | 52 |
Moving Pictures | 84 |
The Power to Name | 118 |
A Diary of Deportation | 134 |
The Great Purges and the Rights of Man | 153 |
Deportee into Colonizer | 173 |
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Kaleidoscopic Odessa: History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine Tanya Richardson Limited preview - 2008 |