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An Exercise in Trying and Failing to be Brief

Because my “questions” are a little ambiguous, I’ve underlined what topics I think discussion in class could address. Khalid This reading did a fantastic job of demonstrating the complex interrelated and competing ideas before and after revolution that shaped Central … Continue reading

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Wrapping my head around the “need” to nationalize

A major tension seemed to dominate Hirsch’s piece, between the ethnographers who attempted (at first) to accurately and respectfully study and understand identities throughout the Soviet Union and the state goal of consolidating identities into nationalities that could be understood … Continue reading

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