Socialist Way of Life in Siberia Transformation in Buryatia

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: challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chakars, Melissa, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press 2022.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009741334906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 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?
  • Conclusion.