In the Soviet House of Culture : : A Century of Perestroikas / / Bruce Grant.

At 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, L...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 14 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Terminology
  • List of Abbreviations
  • One Introduction
  • Two Rybnoe Reconstructed
  • Three Nivkhi before the Soviets
  • Four 1920s and the New Order
  • Five The Stalinist Period
  • Six 1960s Resettlements and the Time of Stagnation
  • Seven Perestroika Revisited: On Dissolution and Disillusion
  • Eight Conclusions: The Subjects Presumed to Know
  • Appendix "A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage," by Frederick Engels
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index