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Voices of the Soviet Outskirts. The Life of Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow

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Voices of the Soviet Outskirts. The Life of Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow
14.99 €
At the end of the Soviet era, hundreds of thousands of migrants - Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis and representatives of other peoples - arrived in Moscow and Leningrad in search of new opportunities. How did they integrate into the centers of Soviet life? Did they encounter racism and discrimination? How was the Soviet concept of "friendship of peoples" realized in practice? Drawing on a wealth of oral testimony gathered through field research, Jeff Sahadeo analyzes how the energy of the migrants changed their own destiny and the lives of the two capitals. The author examines their individual motivations and strategies to understand how those from different parts of the country understood the idea of the Soviet Union and constructed its later realities. Their stories present Moscow and Leningrad as the centers of the many horizontal networks that linked the disparate regions of the USSR, help us see the "stagnant" Brezhnev era as a time of dynamic social transformation, and examine the complex relationship between center and periphery, in which regional identities were simultaneously asserted and destroyed. Jeff Sahadeo is a historian and professor at Carleton University, specializing in the history of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia.
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