New Soviet Gypsies : Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union /

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"As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, "Gypsies" threatened the Bolsheviks' ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cult...

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Main Author: O'Keeffe, Brigid, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romanies > Social life and customs.
Romanies > Social conditions.
Romanies > Politics and government.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
Tsiganes > URSS > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Tsiganes > URSS > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Romanies > Soviet Union > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Romanies > Soviet Union > Politics and government > 20th century.
Romanies > Soviet Union > Social conditions > 20th century.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Backward gypsies, Soviet citizens: the all-Russian gypsy union
  • A political education: Soviet values and practical realities in gypsy schools
  • Parasites, pariahs, and proletarians: class struggle and the forging of a gypsy proletariat
  • Nomads into farmers: Romani activism and the territorialization of (in)difference
  • Pornography or authenticity? Performing gypsiness on the Soviet stage

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