Research Catalog

Title

The socialist way of life in Siberia : transformation in Buryatia / Melissa Chakars.

Author

Chakars, Melissa.

Publication

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

xv, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic late twentieth century transformation in the everyday lives of the Buryats, a Mongolian people who live in Siberian Russia. The book challenges the common perception that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state. The author examines the central question of being a Buryat and being a successful Buryat in the socio-political structures of the Tsarist Russian Empire, later during Socialism and in present-day Russia. The Buryats and especially the intellectual elite of the Buryats are treated as a group which due to their historical and cultural roots and capability (determined also historically) became an integral and efficient part of the Russian administrative and cultural life. By 1991, the Buryats were overrepresented in nearly every profession in their autonomous republic despite the fact that they made up only around 25 percent of its population.

Subject

• Buriats > Politics and government
• Buriats > Social conditions
• Buriats > Social life and customs
• Socialism > Social aspects > Russia (Federation) > Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡
• Social change > Russia (Federation) > Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡
• Social change > Russia (Federation) > Siberia
• 15.75 history of Asia
• Ethnic relations
• Social change
• Social conditions
• Politik
• Burjaten
• Soziale Situation
• Nationalitätenpolitik
• Sozialismus
• Sozialer Wandel
• Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡ (Russia) > Social conditions
• Siberia (Russia) > Social conditions
• Siberia (Russia) > Ethnic relations
• Russia (Federation) > Buri︠a︡tii︠a︡
• Russia (Federation) > Siberia
• Burjatien
• Sowjetunion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Modernization and Soviet success -- Institutions and the culture of progress -- Buryat exceptionalism and advancement -- Outline of chapters -- The Buryats of Siberia : from imperial Russia to the Soviet state -- Stalinism in Buryatia -- The new Buryats -- Education for change -- Buryat literature for a new society -- A means to modernity : newspapers, radio, and television -- Reform, but what kind? -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9789633860137
• 963386013X

LCCN

2013046201

OCLC

• ocn863196716
• 863196716
• SCSB-1770553

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library