Deaf in the USSR : Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 / Claire L. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Claire L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Soviet Union--History.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology)--Soviet Union--History.

Identity (Psychology).

Marginality, Social--Soviet Union--History.

Marginality, Social.

Deaf people--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Deaf people.

Deaf culture--Soviet Union--History.

Deaf culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated-both individually and collectively- by a vibrant and independent community of deaf people who engaged in complex ways with Soviet ideology.Deaf in the USSR engages with a wide range of sources from both deaf and hearing perspectives-archival sources, films and literature, personal memoirs, and journalism-to build a multilayered history of deafness. This book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history and disability studies as well as those in the international deaf community who are interested in their collective heritage. Deaf in the USSR will also enjoy a broad readership among those who are interested in deafness and disability as a key to more inclusive understandings of being human and of language, society, politics, and power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Terminology

Glossary and Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Revolutionizing Deafness

2. Making the Deaf Soviet

3. War and Reconstruction

4. The Golden Age

5. Pygmalion

6. Deaf-Soviet Identity in Decline

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781501713798

1501713795

OCLC:

973222777