Voices from the Soviet edge : southern migrants in Leningrad and Moscow /

"This book focuses on those peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, who were making the streets of the Soviet Union's "two capitals" their own. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis and others arrived in the last Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the...

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1. Verfasser: Sahadeo, Jeff, 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2019.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvfc53xb
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Global, Soviet cities
  • Friendship, freedom, mobility and the elder brother
  • Making a place in the two capitals
  • Race and racism
  • Becoming "svoi" : belonging in the two capitals
  • Life on the margins
  • Perestroika.