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- Title: Movements of Peoples and the Genesis of "Soviet Spaces" (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 289 KB
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Abstract The Soviet Union was mysterious for so long in part because it was closed to most outsiders. In retrospect, Soviet Power is remarkable because of the way it organized and commanded its sequestered space. This paper tries to explain how the USSR came to be a "heterotopia"--unlike spaces with which we are familiar. Russia's historical record shows administrative centralization alternating regularly with decentralization over hundreds of years. And although the pattern remained operative in the Soviet period, it remains possible to speak of a distinctly Soviet space--which included an extended space of incarceration, a characteristic domestic space, a space of planned cities, and a vast space of environmental ruin.