Toward Nationalizing Regimes by Diana T. Kudaibergenova

Author:Diana T. Kudaibergenova [Kudaibergenova, Diana T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780822946175
Google: 2uZ8yAEACAAJ
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2020-06-16T03:36:24+00:00

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“LOST IN TRANSLATION”

RUSSIAN NATIONALISM, MINORITY RIGHTS, AND SELFHOOD OUTSIDE RUSSIA

Anna, a middle-aged ethnic Russian, was born in Soviet Alma-Ata and moved to Jurmala, a sea resort town outside Riga, in her early twenties. She obtained her medical degree in Moscow and spent most of her adult life in Latvia. She worked as a beautician in one of Jurmala’s sanatoriums to which many Soviet citizens used to come for recreational purposes, and where, in her own words, “there was no need to learn Latvian” because everyone spoke Russian. Anna spent most of her life in this small seaside town before moving to Riga in the mid-1990s. As a noncitizen and the ex-wife of a former Soviet soldier (militia), she could not legally buy her apartment in Kengaraks before she married another ethnic Russian who was able to naturalize in the early 2000s. I sit in Anna’s two-bedroom apartment and she is reluctant to talk about her multiple failures in trying to learn Latvian:

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