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Author Shaw, Claire L., author.

Title Deaf in the USSR : marginality, community, and Soviet identity, 1917-1991 / Claire L. Shaw.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Making the deaf Soviet -- War and reconstruction -- Golden age -- Pygmalion -- Deaf-Soviet identity in decline.
Summary Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated?both individually and collectively - by a vibrant and independent community of deaf people who engaged in complex ways with Soviet ideology. Deaf in the USSR engages with a wide range of sources from both deaf and hearing perspectives - archival sources, films and literature, personal memoirs, and journalism?to build a multilayered history of deafness. This book will appeal to scholars of Soviet history and disability studies as well as those in the international deaf community who are interested in their collective heritage. Deaf in the USSR will also enjoy a broad readership among those who are interested in deafness and disability as a key to more inclusive understandings of being human and of language, society, politics, and power.
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Subject Deaf culture -- Soviet Union -- History.
Deaf culture.
Soviet Union.
History.
Deaf -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Deaf.
Social conditions.
Marginality, Social -- Soviet Union -- History.
Marginality, Social.
Identity (Psychology) -- Soviet Union -- History.
Identity (Psychology)
Group identity -- Soviet Union -- History.
Group identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Shaw, Claire L. Deaf in the USSR. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713668 (DLC) 2017006013
ISBN 9781501713781 (epub/mobi)
1501713787
9781501713798 (pdf)
1501713795
9781501713668