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| Title: | Moving in the USSR
: Western Anomalies & Northern Wilderness |
| Author: | Pekka Hakamies (ed) |
| ISBN: | 9517466951 : 9789517466950 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 161 |
| Weight: | .348 Kg. |
| Published: | Finnish Literature Society - November 2005 |
| List Price: | 22.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Ethnic studies: EUROPE: Russia |
The central question deals with the westward interaction between Russia and Europe from a Russian perspective: How has the tradition of Russia's culture and history set the conditions for its developmental and political choices?
Introduction; Modernisation in the 1940s and 1950s in the Part of Karelia That Was Annexed from Finland on 13 March 1940; "We Were Unaware of the History. Just Took... Our Risk"; Recollections of "Native Land" in Oral Tradition of Russian Settlers to Karelia; "One is Drawn to One's Birthplace" or "The Place Where One Feels at Home is One's Motherland"; New Culture on New Territories; On the Problems of Local Identity and Contemporary Russian "Migratory Texts" (with Reference to the North-western Region of Russia); Contemporary Images of the Shtetl, Amongst the Ukrainian Population of Urban-Type Settlements and Villages of Podolia.
