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

[Howard Krushel]

Laurel:
Kate contacted George Maser and myself before she went over to Ukraine to
work on her project; as such, I kept in touch with her and obtained a copy
of her thesis but this was not a bound copy so I am very pleased to hear of
it having been bound and published; we'll certainly obtain a copy for the
SGGEE library; much of it is scholarly but much of it reads like a novel;
her love of the area and the people comes through loud and clear.
Howard Krushel
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From: "Laurel Davies" <ldavies at rogers.com>
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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:06 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] New book? - A History of No Place by
KateBrown


> 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
>
>