Everything is wonderful : memories of a collective farm in Estonia
Rausing, Sigrid2014
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In 1993-94 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, fleeing war and Soviet and Nazi occupation. Rausing's conversations with the local people touched on many subjects: the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. In this book, Rausing reflects on history, political repression, and the story of the minority Swedes in the area.
Main title:
Everything is wonderful : memories of a collective farm in Estonia / Sigrid Rausing.
Author:
Rausing, Sigrid, author
Imprint:
New York : Grove Press, 2014.
Collation:
304 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780802122179 (hbk)
Language:
English
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