Deaf in the USSR : : Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 / / Claire L. Shaw.

In Deaf in the USSR, Claire L. Shaw asks what it meant to be deaf in a culture that was founded on a radically utopian, socialist view of human perfectibility. Shaw reveals how fundamental contradictions inherent in the Soviet revolutionary project were negotiated—both individually and collectively—...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Terminology
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Revolutionizing Deafness
  • 2. Making the Deaf Soviet
  • 3. War and Reconstruction
  • 4. The Golden Age
  • 5. Pygmalion
  • 6. Deaf-Soviet Identity in Decline
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Index