In the Soviet House of Culture A Century of Perestroikas / Bruce Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Bruce, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Russia (Federation)--Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ).

Ethnology.

Gilyaks.

Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)--Ethnic relations.

Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

1995. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ :

Summary:

At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that followed would transform them dramatically. While Russian missionaries hounded them for their pagan ways, Lenin praised them; while Stalin routed them in purges, Khrushchev gave them respite; and while Brezhnev organized complex resettlement campaigns, Gorbachev pronounced that they were free to resume a traditional life. But what is tradition after seven decades of building a Soviet world? Based on years of research in the former Soviet Union, Bruce Grant's book draws upon Nivkh interviews, newly opened archives, and rarely translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity. With a keen sensitivity, Grant explores the often paradoxical participation by Nivkhi in these shifting waves of Sovietization and poses questions about how cultural identity is constituted and reconstituted, restructured and dismantled. Part chronicle of modernization, part saga of memory and forgetting, In the Soviet House of Culture is an interpretive ethnography of one people's attempts to recapture the past as they look toward the future. This is a book that will appeal to anthropologists and historians alike, as well as to anyone who is interested in the people and politics of the former Soviet Union.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Terminology

List of Abbreviations

One Introduction

Two Rybnoe Reconstructed

Three Nivkhi before the Soviets

Four 1920s and the New Order

Five The Stalinist Period

Six 1960s Resettlements and the Time of Stagnation

Seven Perestroika Revisited: On Dissolution and Disillusion

Eight Conclusions: The Subjects Presumed to Know

Appendix "A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage," by Frederick Engels

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-222) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691044323

0691044325

OCLC:

1199341819