@article{1478261,
      recid = {1478261},
      author = {Brown, Kate, },
      title = {A Biography of No Place : From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet  Heartland /},
      pages = {1 online resource (322 p.)},
      abstract = {This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and  Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as  Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side  by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of  cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by  the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany,  and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the  1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland,  and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was  destroyed. Kate Brown's study is grounded in the life of  the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small  histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive  detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically  and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this  intricate community into distinct ethnic groups. Drawing on  recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews  that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place  reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of  the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the  center of history. We are given, in short, an intimate  portrait of the ethnic purification that has marked all of  Europe, as well as a glimpse at the margins of  twentieth-century "progress."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478261},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674028937},
}