New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union by Brigid O'Keeffe

New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union

Brigid O'Keeffe

344 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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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...

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