| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 328 pages) : illustrations, 1 portrait |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Backward Gypsies, Soviet Citizens: The All-Russian Gypsy Union -- A Political Education: Soviet Values and Practical Realities in Gypsy Schools -- Parasites, Pariahs, and Proletarians: Class Struggle And the Forging of a Gypsy Proletariat -- Nomads into Farmers: Romani Activism and the Territorialization of (In)Difference -- Pornography or Authenticity? Performing Gypsiness on the Soviet Stage -- Epilogue and Conclusion: "Am I a Gypsy or Not a Gypsy?": Nationality and the Performance of Soviet Selfhood. |
| Summary |
"As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, "Gypsies" threatened the Bolsheviks' ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural "backwardness," and sought to sovietize Roma through a range of nation-building projects. Yet as Brigid O'Keeffe shows in this book, Roma actively engaged with Bolshevik nationality policies, thereby assimilating Soviet culture, social customs, and economic relations. Roma proved the primary agents in the refashioning of so-called "backwards Gypsies" into conscious Soviet citizens. New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union. O'Keeffe illustrates how Roma mobilized and performed "Gypsiness" as a means of advancing themselves socially, culturally, and economically as Soviet citizens. Exploring the intersection between nationality, performance, and self-fashioning, O'Keeffe shows that Roma not only defy easy typecasting, but also deserve study as agents of history."--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Romanies -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Romanies. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Romanies -- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Romanies -- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Keeffe, Brigid, 1979- New Soviet gypsies. 9781442646506 1442646500 |
| ISBN |
9781442665866 (electronic book) |
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1442665866 (electronic book) |
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9781442646506 (print) |
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1442646500 |
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