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The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia : Transformation in Buryatia /

The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic late twentieth century transformation in the everyday lives of the Buryats, a Mongolian people who live in Siberian Russia. The book challenges the common perception that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created na...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chakars, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modernization and Soviet success
  • Institutions and the culture of progress
  • Buryat exceptionalism and advancement
  • Outline of chapters
  • The Buryats of Siberia : from imperial Russia to the Soviet state
  • Stalinism in Buryatia
  • The new Buryats
  • Education for change
  • Buryat literature for a new society
  • A means to modernity : newspapers, radio, and television
  • Reform, but what kind?