{"product_id":"blood-of-others-rory-finnin-9781487507817","title":"Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in Soviet Russia, Soviet Ukraine, and the Republic of Turkey were works of literature. These texts of poetry and prose - some passed hand-to-hand underground, others published to controversy - shocked the conscience of readers and sought to move them to action.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlood of Others\u003c\/i\u003e presents these works as vivid evidence of literature's power to lift our moral horizons. In bringing these remarkable texts to light and contextualizing them among Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian representations of Crimea from 1783, Rory Finnin provides an innovative cultural history of the Black Sea region. He reveals how a \"poetics of solidarity\" promoted empathy and support for an oppressed people through complex provocations of guilt rather than shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForging new roads between Slavic studies and Middle Eastern studies, \u003ci\u003eBlood of Others\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling and timely exploration of the ideas and identities coursing between Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine - three countries determining the fate of a volatile and geopolitically pivotal part of our world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rory Finnin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 148750781X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487507817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023","brand":"Rory Finnin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057557270783,"sku":"9781487507817","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b76762be-393b-4078-8dc5-4788df6bd4a5.jpg?v=1685047667","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-of-others-rory-finnin-9781487507817","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}