[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] New book? - A History of No Place by Kate Brown

[Laurel Davies]

I haven't seen any mention of this book on the
mailing list and thought others might find it
interesting too.

A Biography of No Place, From Ethnic Borderland to
Soviet Heartland
by Kate Brown, 
Harvard University Press 2004, 
ISBN 0-674-01949-0
($27.50 from McGill University bookstore)

The book covers in detail events in the Soviet
borderlands (including Zhitomyr and Pulin areas) from
approximately 1921 to the end of WWII. 

It is slightly scholarly (lots of footnotes) but the
author has travelled in the region and she includes
interesting first-person anecdotes and many excerpts
from her researches in the archives. 

I have only read up to the 1935 collectivization and
deportations but I couldn't wait to recommend this
book.

Laurel Davies