A Biography of No Place
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in , 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 s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed.
Brown's study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups.
Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history.
We are given, in short, an intimate portrait of the ethnic pu
A Biography of No Place
Brown, Kate. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press,
Brown, K. (). A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press.
Brown, K. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press.
Brown, Kate. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press,
Brown K. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press;
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A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
Outside of that forest was boggy land, which meant the weather around said forest was always a few degrees cooler than elsewhere. And the boggy ground made it harder than usual to plant the usual stock of crops as well.
The agelessness of this ‘no place’, worked to its advantage, for it was a borderland. Polish people, German people, Russian People, Jewish People, Ukrainians People among others found peace living side by side one another in small villages. And it remained like that for a long time.
However, it was not to last. Famine and war forced those who had called this area their home elsewhere, and soon civilization as well found its way to the ‘no place’. decades later, that no place was more well known for being a literal melting pot, rather than the cultural melting pot it had been just a generation earlier.
This ‘No Place’, meaning the borderland between Poland
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in , 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 s, this “no place” emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed.
Kate Brown’s study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups.
Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history. We are given, in sh
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