Buddhists, shamans, and Soviets : rituals of history in post-Soviet Buryatia / Justine Buck Quijada.

History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a 'backward' nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march toward the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version...

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