Brigid O Keeffe: 1 book
New Soviet Gypsies
Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,”...
