New Soviet Gypsies : Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
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| Title: | New Soviet Gypsies : Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Brigid O'Keeffe |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Romanies--Soviet Union--Social conditions--20th century, Romanies--Soviet Union--Social life and customs--20th century, Romanies--Soviet Union--Politics and government--20th century |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Russia / General |
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