{"product_id":"in-the-soviet-house-of-bruce-grant-9780691044323","title":"In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that followed would transform them dramatically. While Russian missionaries hounded them for their pagan ways, Lenin praised them; while Stalin routed them in purges, Khrushchev gave them respite; and while Brezhnev organized complex resettlement campaigns, Gorbachev pronounced that they were free to resume a traditional life. But what is tradition after seven decades of building a Soviet world? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on years of research in the former Soviet Union, Bruce Grant's book draws upon Nivkh interviews, newly opened archives, and rarely translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity. With a keen sensitivity, Grant explores the often paradoxical participation by Nivkhi in these shifting waves of Sovietization and poses questions about how cultural identity is constituted and reconstituted, restructured and dismantled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part chronicle of modernization, part saga of memory and forgetting, \u003ci\u003eIn the Soviet House of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an interpretive ethnography of one people's attempts to recapture the past as they look toward the future. This is a book that will appeal to anthropologists and historians alike, as well as to anyone who is interested in the people and politics of the former Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691044325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691044323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.12w x 0.65d","brand":"Bruce Grant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46571035427071,"sku":"9780691044323","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39425c9c-c910-4928-a62f-890a5b5ff16a.jpg?v=1738807056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-soviet-house-of-bruce-grant-9780691044323","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}