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Review of The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia. By Melissa Chakar. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014. xvi, 296 pp. Bibliography. Index. Plates. Tables. Maps. $55.00, hard bound
Slavic Review. 2016. Vol. 75. No. 2. P. 515–516.
A gift to Joseph Stalin from the “toiling masses” of Buyriat-Mongol Autonomous Republic
on occasion of the republic’s twenty-fi ft h anniversary in 1948 was a traditional
Buryat costume with a wide belt in the form of a chain of silver buckles. Each buckle
depicts an achievement of Soviet modernity: industry, agriculture—and enlightenment,
as on one buckle a lamp is hammered casting light over an open book and
musical instruments (Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, ed. Gift s to Soviet Leaders, 2006, 101).
It is as if the very body of the Buryat nation is a traditionally dressed male fi gure
whose silhouette is emphasized by modernity. Melissa Chakar’s insightful, concise
and clearly written book is a historical account of such Soviet framing of twentiethcentury
Buryat society.
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