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Deaf in the USSR : marginality, community, and Soviet identity, 1917-1991

Title

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

Author

Shaw, Claire L.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description

xvi, 292 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-284) filmography (page 284), and index.

Contents

Revolutionizing deafness -- Making the deaf Soviet -- War and reconstruction -- The Golden age -- Pygmalion -- Deaf-Soviet identity in decline.

ISBN

9781501713668
1501713663

LCCN

2017006013
40027484932

OCLC

ocn973199823
973199823
SCSB-8863101

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library