The socialist way of life in Siberia : transformation in Buryatia / Melissa Chakars.

ISBN:

9789633860144

Title:

Author:

Chakars, Melissa, author.

Personal Author:

Chakars, Melissa, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

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?

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Subject Term:

Buriats -- Politics and government.

Buriats -- Social conditions.

Buriats -- Social life and customs.

Socialism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a.

Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Buri͡atii͡a.

Social change -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.

Geographic Term:

Buri͡atii͡a (Russia) -- Social conditions.

Siberia (Russia) -- Social conditions.

Siberia (Russia) -- Ethnic relations.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Budapest :

Central European University Press,

2014.

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Summary

The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.

Author Notes

Chakars Melissa :

Melissa Chakars is Assistant Professor at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia.