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American Historical Review

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 596-605

  Brown, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

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EID: 70249139153     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.114.3.596     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. On miraculous sightings and belief in unclean forces in right-bank Ukraine in the 1920s, see Nykanor Dmytruk, "Pro chudesa na Ukraini roku 1923-go," Etnografichnyi visnyk 1 (1925): 50-65;
2. Dmytruk, "Z novogo pobutu," Etnografichnyi visnyk 2 (1926): 31-37;
3. Dmytruk, "'Chudesa' na Poltavshchyni, 1928," Etnografichnyi visnyk 8 (1929): 168-180;
4. Vasyl' Kravchenko, "Osapatova dolyna," Etnografichnyi visnyk 2 (1926): 108-111;
5. Olena Pchilka, "Ukrain'ski narodni legendy ostann'ogo chasu," Etnografichnyi visnyk 1 (1925): 43-47;
6. and Ludmila Vinogradov, "Polesskaia demonologiia," in Anna Skrypnyk, ed., Polissia - mova, kul'tura, istoriia (Kiev, 1996), 252-255.
7. On Polesia as the cradle of Slavic civilization, see Stefaniia Gvozdevich, "Arkhaichnyi elementy u rodil'ni obriadovosty polishchukiv," in Skrypnyk, Polissia, 247-251.
8. See "Kharakteristika Dzerzhinskogo natsional'nogo pol'skogo raiona BSSR," Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii [hereafter GARF], f. 3316, op. 64, d. 1537 (1934), 17-22.
9. For a similar report on the political-national-geographic qualities of the Polish autonomous regions of Soviet Ukraine, see GARF, f. 3316, op. 64, d. 1537 (1934), 33-42.
10. For a report on Polish areas of Belorussia, see GARF, f. 3316, op. 28, d. 775 (1935), 27.
11. The personal kharakteristika, or autobiographical description, was a distinct part of Soviet political life - what Jochen Hellbeck describes as an individual's public "work toward self-perfection." The authors of the kharakteristiki on the national minority regions in the borderlands transferred narratives and adjectives of personal socialist transformation and treachery and applied them collectively to the minority territories, as if they, "the Poles" or "Germans," acted as one body. The fact that Soviet officials used the terminology and language of a kharakteristika and applied them to a territory rather than an individual shows how the concept of "biography" had spread by the 1930s to nationally inscribed territories. Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin (Cambridge, Mass., 2006), 7.
12. See also Kate Brown, A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland (Cambridge, Mass., 2004), 118-133;
13. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton, N.J., 2005);
14. and Igal Halfin, From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia (Pittsburgh, 2000).
15. Zofia Kossak, Pozoga: Wspomnienia z Wołfnia, 1917-1919 (Warsaw, 1996);
16. Maria Dunin-Kozicka, Burza od wschodu: Wspomnienia z Kijowszczyzny (1918-1920) (Lodz, 1990);
17. Anna Zahorska, Odrutowana okolica (Warsaw, 1925);
18. Zahorska, Trucizny: Powiesc wspólczesna (Warsaw, 1928);
19. Kazimierz Leczycki, Brat z tarntej strony (Wilno, 1923);
20. Jerzy Stempowski, W dolinie Dniestru: Listy o Ukrainie (Warsaw, 1993);
21. V. G. Bogoraz, Evreiskoe mestechko v revoliutsii (Moscow, 1926);
22. L. Aizenberg, "Mestechko Kaminski i ego obivateli," Evreiskaia letopis' 4 (1926): 81;
23. L. M. Aizenberg, "Chudo tsadika v kassastionnom senate," Evreiskaia letopis' 4 (1926): 185-186;
24. Herbert Henke, "Der dornige Weg zum Wissen: Autobiographische Skizzen," Feniks 11 (September 1995): 2-76.
25. Many writers who memorialized what they called the (lost) Polish kresy (borderlands) were influenced by Johann Herder's equation of geography with the Volksgeist, and the Volksgeist with individual and national destiny. See Johann Gottfried Herder, Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings, trans. Ioannis D. Evrigenis and Daniel Pellerin (Indianapolis, 2004).
26. Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (New York, 1982).
27. On Poles of Ukraine, see W. Ta̧goborski, Polacy Zwiqzku Radzieckiego: Ich pochodzenie, udziat w Rewolucji Padźiemikowej i budownictwie socjalistycznym (Moscow, 1929);
28. Mikołaj Iwanow, Pierwszy naród ukarany: Stalinizm wobec polskiej ludności kresowej, 1921-1938 (Warsaw, 1991);
29. Janusz M. Kup-czak, Polacy na Ukrainie w latach 1921-1939 (Wroclaw, 1994);
30. Genrikh Strons'kyi, Zlet ipodinnia: Pol'skii natsional'nii raion v Ukrainy u 20-30 roki (Ternopil', 1992);
31. Antoni Urbanski, Z czarnego szlaku i tamtych rubieży: Zabytkipolskie przepadłe na Podolu, Wołyniu, Ukraine (Gdansk, 1991);
32. on Germans of Ukraine, see Meir Buchsweiler, Volksdeutsch in der Ukraine am Vorabend und Beginn des Zweitern Weltkriegs (Tel Aviv, 1984);
33. Bogdan Chyrko, Nemtsi v Ukraini 20-30-ti rr. XX ct. (Kiev, 1994);
34. S. Nikel, Die Deutschen in Wolhynien (Kharkiv, 1936).
35. For histories of Jews, see Ia. S. Khonigsman, Evrei Ukrainy: Kratkii ocherk istorii (Kiev, 1992);
36. V. M. Lukin, B. N. Khaimovich, and V. A. Dymshits, eds., Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: Ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki: Sbornik nauchnykh trudov (St. Petersburg, 1994);
37. Avrahm Yarmolinsky, The Jews and Other Minor Nationalities under the Soviets (New York, 1928).
38. On the Nazi German creation of the idea of Volksdeutsch in right-bank Ukraine, see Wilhelm Fielitz, Das Stereotyp des wolhyniendeutschen Umsiedlers: Popularisierungen zwischen Sprachinselforschung und nationalsozialistischer Propaganda (Marburg, 2000).
39. The factory produced an average of one million movements annually from 1920 through 1928, more than half of the total domestic watch production and more than twice what its closest competitor produced. E. C. Alft, Elgin: An American History, online ed. (2000), http://www.elginhistory.com/eaah/, chap. 7, sec. 3.
40. E. C. Alft, Elgin: An American History (2000), http://www.elginhistory. com/eaah/ Ibid., chap. 5, sec. 1.
41. E. C. Alft, Elgin: An American History (2000), http://www.elginhistory. com/eaah/ Ibid., chap. 10, sec. 7.
42. In Jefferson Cowie's history of RCA, he shows how the corporation first moved divisions during World War II from Camden, New Jersey, to Bloomington, Indiana, which, he writes, served "much like the Mexican border decades later," as a region of low wages for "competitive-sector, female-made" goods. Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (New York, 1999), 34.
43. Alft, Elgin, chap. 10, sec. 6.
44. Alft, Elgin Ibid., chap. 7, sec. 3.
45. "The Kane County Pimpernel," Time, October 5, 1970.
46. For Phillips's self-published memoir, see Ray Fox, aka Jim Phillips, Raising Kane: The Fox Chronicles (Montgomery, Ill., 1999).
47. As cited in Douglas Martin, "James Phillips, 70, Environmentalist Who Was Called the Fox," New York Times, October 22, 2001.
48. For a wonderful series of essays on the border between author and subject, and its place in historical writing, see "Round Table: Self and Subject," Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (June 2002): 15-53.
49. Kate Brown, "Gridded Lives: Why Kazakhstan and Montana Are Nearly the Same Place," American Historical Review 106, no. 1 (February 2001): 17-48;
50. Brown, "A Historian in the Dead Zone," Chronicle of Higher Education 52, no. 5 (September 23, 2005): B6;
51. and Brown, "Out of Solitary Confinement: The History of the Gulag," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 8, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 67-103.
52. I am currently researching a book on the world's first two plutonium-producing cities, Hanford, Washington, and Cheliabinsk-40, Russia.