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Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia

Sigrid Rausing

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Description:"Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia's terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma." --The Financial TimesA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearJust like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism . . .In the early 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watch towers dotted the coast line, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were lying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners who had fled war and Soviet and Nazi occupation.Rausing's conversations with the local people touched on many the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. In Everything Is Wonderful Rausing reflects on history, political repression, and the story of the minority Swedes in the area. Here she tells her story of what she observed as she lived and worked among the villagers--witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity."A delicate, precise, and richly informative memoir of a forgotten Europe and a vanished world." --Timothy Garton AshWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia. To get started finding Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Grove Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0802192815

Description: "Pages of dreamlike prose explore Estonia's terrible Nazi-Soviet past, the trauma of dictatorship, and how memory processes that trauma." --The Financial TimesA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearJust like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism . . .In the early 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watch towers dotted the coast line, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were lying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners who had fled war and Soviet and Nazi occupation.Rausing's conversations with the local people touched on many the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. In Everything Is Wonderful Rausing reflects on history, political repression, and the story of the minority Swedes in the area. Here she tells her story of what she observed as she lived and worked among the villagers--witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity."A delicate, precise, and richly informative memoir of a forgotten Europe and a vanished world." --Timothy Garton AshWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia. To get started finding Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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