Politics of Nationalism in the Republic of Sakha (northeastern Siberia) 1900-2000
| Author: | Argounova-Low, Tanya | |
| Year: | 2012 | |
| Pages: | 208 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-2600-0 978-0-7734-2600-9 | |
| Price: | $179.95 + shipping | |
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A critical examination of the concept of Natsionalizm, a social phenomenon used by the Soviet Union to crack down on dissent towards the Soviet State. Unlike Nationalism, this new concept was a force used to suppress thought, particularly in Sakha, a Siberian Republic in Northeastern Russia.
Reviews
“This is a fine study of a fascinating but little-known region is an important book … for all who seek to understand the negotiation of power.” – Prof. Piers Vitebsky, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
“… takes the reader on a disturbing and highly evocative journey through space and time, telling a story which is situated in Soviet history but has far wider implications for our understanding of history, memory and silence, and the way these are both formed by the power of the state and undermine its legitimacy.” – Prof Francis Pine, Goldsmiths University of London
"[This book is an] excellent interpretive history. ... She has done us an enormous service by putting Sakha history into contemporary perspective." -- Prof. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University
“… takes the reader on a disturbing and highly evocative journey through space and time, telling a story which is situated in Soviet history but has far wider implications for our understanding of history, memory and silence, and the way these are both formed by the power of the state and undermine its legitimacy.” – Prof Francis Pine, Goldsmiths University of London
"[This book is an] excellent interpretive history. ... She has done us an enormous service by putting Sakha history into contemporary perspective." -- Prof. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Georgetown University
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
The Republic of Sakha
Political History
Taatta Ulus
Soviet Understandings of Natsionalizm
Silence
Chapter 2: Political Movements (1900s-1930s)
Political Climate
Intelligentsia and Elite
Political Unions of Sakha Intelligentsia
Punishment
Natsionalizm as a Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion
Natsionalizm as a Form of Witchcraft
Chapter 3: Cultural Movements (1900s-1930s). Taatta as Rural Heartland
Proletarian Aesthetics
Traditions of Olonkho
Cultural Societies
Natsionalizm as an Expression of Xenophobia
Punishment Continued. Basharin and His Book on the Writers
Chapter 4: Drunken Fight in a Taatta Village, 1954
Drunken Fight
Punishment
Natsionalizm as a Rationale for Scapegoating
Natsionalizm as an Expression of Paranoia
Chapter 5: Hostilities on Friendship Square, Yakutsk, 1986
Fight on the Skating-Rink
Industrial Development
Demographic Situation
No Friendship on Friendship Square
Instigated Event?
Natsionalist Slant Punishment
Natsionalizm as Constructed Deviance
Chapter 6: Taatta Revisted
Breaking the Vicious Circle
Breaking the Silence
Taatta Rehabilitation
The KGB’s Apologies
Dmitrii Kusturov
My Father
Museums
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Natsionalizm as a Smokescreen
‘The Perfect Member of Society’ or ‘Is There Immunity from Natsionalizm?
Nationalism and Natsionalizm
Appendix 1: Decree on Renaming Alekseevski Raion as Tattinski
Appendix 2: Decree of the Presidium on Renaming Alekseevski Raion as Taattinski
Appendix 3: Resolution of the Supreme Soviet on Taatta’s Rehabilitation
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1
The Republic of Sakha
Political History
Taatta Ulus
Soviet Understandings of Natsionalizm
Silence
Chapter 2: Political Movements (1900s-1930s)
Political Climate
Intelligentsia and Elite
Political Unions of Sakha Intelligentsia
Punishment
Natsionalizm as a Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion
Natsionalizm as a Form of Witchcraft
Chapter 3: Cultural Movements (1900s-1930s). Taatta as Rural Heartland
Proletarian Aesthetics
Traditions of Olonkho
Cultural Societies
Natsionalizm as an Expression of Xenophobia
Punishment Continued. Basharin and His Book on the Writers
Chapter 4: Drunken Fight in a Taatta Village, 1954
Drunken Fight
Punishment
Natsionalizm as a Rationale for Scapegoating
Natsionalizm as an Expression of Paranoia
Chapter 5: Hostilities on Friendship Square, Yakutsk, 1986
Fight on the Skating-Rink
Industrial Development
Demographic Situation
No Friendship on Friendship Square
Instigated Event?
Natsionalist Slant Punishment
Natsionalizm as Constructed Deviance
Chapter 6: Taatta Revisted
Breaking the Vicious Circle
Breaking the Silence
Taatta Rehabilitation
The KGB’s Apologies
Dmitrii Kusturov
My Father
Museums
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Natsionalizm as a Smokescreen
‘The Perfect Member of Society’ or ‘Is There Immunity from Natsionalizm?
Nationalism and Natsionalizm
Appendix 1: Decree on Renaming Alekseevski Raion as Tattinski
Appendix 2: Decree of the Presidium on Renaming Alekseevski Raion as Taattinski
Appendix 3: Resolution of the Supreme Soviet on Taatta’s Rehabilitation
Bibliography
Index