Voices of Soviet Outskirts. Life of Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow
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At the end of the Soviet era, hundreds of thousands of migrants - Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and representatives of other nationalities - arrived in Moscow and Leningrad in search of new opportunities. How did their integration into the centers of Soviet life go? Did they face racism and discrimination? How was the Soviet concept of "friendship of peoples" implemented in practice? Drawing on numerous oral testimonies collected during field research, Jeff Sahadeo analyzes how the energy of migrants changed their own destiny and the lives of the two capitals. The author examines the individual motives and strategies of these people to understand how migrants from different parts of the country understood the idea of the Soviet Union and constructed its later realities. Their stories present Moscow and Leningrad as centers of multiple horizontal networks connecting disparate regions of the USSR, helping to see the "stagnant" Brezhnev era as a time of dynamic social transformations, and also to consider the complex relationships between the center and the periphery, in which regional identity was simultaneously asserted and destroyed. Jeff Sahadeo is a historian, professor at Carleton University, specializing in the history of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia.
Author:
Author:Sahadeo Jeff
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Politics & Social Science
Dimensions:
Dimensions:23x15.5x2.5 cm
Series:
Series:Library of the journal 'Neprikosnovenny zapas'
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1984-5
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