@article{1355567,
      recid = {1355567},
      author = {Gardner, Janet.},
      title = {Siberian dream [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (33 min.).},
      year = {2004},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {Originally from a small village in the Buryat region of  Siberia, Irina Pantaeva emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s.  Every summer, Irina, a world-famous model, and her son  travel back to help her troubled family, trapped in the new  free market society struggling with alcoholism, lawlessness  and despair. Through interviews with academics, local  shamans, monks, musicians, and farmers, Siberian Dream  shows the effects of perestroika and glasnost on this  Buryat community. The Buryats are trying to develop an open  society while struggling to revive their culture. Irina and  her family embody these efforts. Buryat-Mongols --  including the Pantaeva family -- practice Buddhism and  Shamanism simultaneously. Irina celebrates her endangered  Buryat-Mongol culture, teaching her son the importance of  honoring their ancestors. Dr. David Foglesong, Professor of  Russian History at Rutgers, illuminates the effects of  Russification and the events and personalities driving  glasnost and perestroika. Dr. Robert Thurman, Professor of  Religion at Columbia University and President of Tibet  House, New York, discusses Tibetan Buddhism and history as  it affected the Mongolian tribes to which the Buryats  belong.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355567},
}