The socialist way of life in Siberia : : transformation in Buryatia / / Melissa Chakars.
The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization dur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest, Hungary ;, New York, New York : : Central European University Press,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Modernization and Soviet success
- Institutions and the culture of progress
- Buryat exceptionalism and advancement
- Outline of chapters
- The Buryats of Siberia : from imperial Russia to the Soviet state
- Stalinism in Buryatia
- The new Buryats
- Education for change
- Buryat literature for a new society
- A means to modernity : newspapers, radio, and television
- Reform, but what kind?
- Conclusion.