"In our society, everything is merged; everything has become a commonplace." Written during Dostoyevsky's exile in Siberia, Uncle's Dream (1859) is a rare foray into comedy; a witty and ironic portrayal of 19th century provincial society and its morals and human weaknesses. When the ageing Russian Prince K. arrives in the fictional small town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, the doyenne of local society, schemes to marry him to her daughter, Zina, in order to secure her future. But she has reckoned without the prince's failing memory and chaos ensues, revealing the absurdities of social ambition and the emptiness of societal norms. While comedic in nature, Uncle's Dream nonetheless possesses all the hallmarks of the author's philosophical and psychological insight into human folly and vanity and reflects his ongoing exploration of moral choices and the absurd situations arising from societal pressures. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his profound explorations of psychology, morality, and the human condition. Born in Moscow, his tumultuous life was marked by early literary success and followed by arrest and exile due to his radical political activities. He is widely regarded as one of the world's finest novelists, penning classics that include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His work has had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction and his ideas have profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary? And how harmful is it to humanity that such knowledge is lost forever? Harrison spans the globe from Siberia, to North America, to the Himalayas and elsewhere, to look at the human knowledge that is slowly being lost as the languages that express it fade from sight. He uses fascinating anecdotes and portraits of some of these languages' last remaining speakers, in order to demonstrate that this knowledge about ourselves and the world is inherently precious and once gone, will be lost forever. This knowledge is not only our cultural heritage (oral histories, poetry, stories, etc.) but very useful knowledge about plants, animals, the seasons, and other aspects of the natural world--not to mention our understanding of the capacities of the human mind. Harrison's book is a testament not only to the pressing issue of language death, but to the remarkable span of human knowledge and ingenuity. It will fascinate linguists, anthropologists, and general readers.

A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead ... in a sauna. A darkly funny, tense new thriller from 'The funniest writer in Europe¿ ( The Times) `The best comic crime novel you'll read this year¿ Abir Mukherjee `Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com. Comedy is still pervasive ... the novel's glorious gallery of weirdos¿ Sunday Times Book of the Month `Finnish author Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters ... [a] tense, pacy novel, laced with the author's trademark laconic humour¿ Guardian Book of the Month `It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we haven't been looking in Finland ... simultaneously thrilling and evocative of the mundanity of life, and also very funny indeed¿ Telegraph **Antti Tuomainen's Little Siberia is NOW a major NETFLIX movie** ______ Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for... A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered ... in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death? The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen - top salesperson and the victim's successor at Steam Devil. And as if hitting middle-age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren't enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all - before it's too late... From the international bestselling author of Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor, comes a darkly funny, delightfully tense new thriller that showcases humanity at its most bare - in middle age, suspected of murder and, of course, in a sauna... _____ `Showcases Antti's trademark deadpan humour and crime plots focused on intriguingly quirky individuals. An utter delight¿ Vaseem Khan `Just what you want from Antti Tuomainen, the brilliant moulding of apparent mundanity into a which-way-now thrill ride, with humour drier than a desert snake's belly' Ian Moore `The funniest writer in Europe¿ The Times `Hilarious, beautifully penned and startlingly inventive. No other writer can come up with more ways to kill you in a sauna, and The Burning Stones cements Tuomainen's position as the king of the humorous crime caper¿ Abir Mukherjee `Laconic, thrilling and warmly human - hugely enjoyable¿ Christopher Brookmyre `Antti turns the heat up with this wryly comic thriller. You'll sweat along with the characters!¿ Douglas Skelton `You don't expect to laugh when you're reading about terrible crimes, but that's what you'll do when you pick up one of Tuomainen's decidedly quirky thrillers¿ New York Times `Finland's greatest export¿ M.J. Arlidge `A refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is known¿ Publishers Weekly `Right up there with the best¿ Times Literary Supplement Praise for Antti Tuomainen `Delightfully funny¿ Guardian `Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections on mortality and very funny¿ Irish Times `Fresh and witty¿ Chris Ewan `A thrilling and hilarious read¿ Liz Nugent `Charming, funny and clever¿ Literary Review `A delight from start to finish¿ Big Issue `Finnish criminal chucklemeister Tuomainen is channelling Carl Hiassen¿ Sunday Times `A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov¿ Telegraph

From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, hailed as “the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era” (The New Yorker), comes a masterful translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. “A master of psychological portraiture. . . . A testament to the power of the human will, the way it can marshal patience and imagination and hope.”—The New Criterion In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: “The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being.”

"Compelling and utterly fascinating...drifts far into the mysterious lives of Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson." -Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the beloved daughter, revered icon, and Russian grand duchess or is she an imposter, liar, and the thief of another woman's legacy? Countless others have rendered their verdict. Now it is your turn. Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia, where they face a merciless firing squad. None survive. At least that is what the executioners have always claimed. Germany, February 17, 1920: A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal. Refusing to explain her presence in the freezing water or even acknowledge her rescuers, she is taken to the hospital where an examination reveals that her body is riddled with countless horrific scars. When she finally does speak, this frightened, mysterious young woman claims to be the Russian grand duchess. As rumors begin to circulate through European society that the youngest Romanov daughter has survived the massacre at Ekaterinburg, old enemies and new threats are awakened. The question of who Anna Anderson is and what actually happened to Anastasia Romanov spans fifty years and touches three continents. This thrilling saga is every bit as moving and momentous as it is harrowing and twisted.

"There are moments in which you live through more in your consciousness than in whole years." Netochka Nezvanova was originally intended to be a large-scale work in the form of a confession, but a background sketch of the eponymous heroine's childhood and adolescence is all that was completed and published. Netochka Nezvanova—a "Nameless Nobody"— is a young girl whose childhood is dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. Efimov's madness brings terrible poverty and discord to the family, and leaves the young Netochka with a premature and painful insight into the dark side of human emotions. Rescued by an aristocratic family and borne into the glittering salons of aristocratic St. Petersburg, Netochka discovers that privilege brings its own kind of loneliness. The novel was abandoned when Dostoyevsky was exiled to Siberia for 'revolutionary activities' in 1849 and never completed, yet it offers a glimpse of the themes that would later define the author's work—alienation, suffering, and the search for redemption. Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his profound explorations of psychology, morality, and the human condition. Born in Moscow, his tumultuous life was marked by early literary success and followed by arrest and exile due to his radical political activities. He is widely regarded as one of the world's finest novelists, penning classics that include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov. His work has had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction and his ideas have profoundly shaped literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism.

Im Westen Deutschland, im Osten Russland. Polen lag immer dazwischen. Russland vereinnahmte seit 1815 das gesamte polnische Territorium. Die russischen Zaren herrschten bis 1863 in dem Land. Das polnische Volk lehnte sich nun gegen die Fremdherrschaft auf. Allerdings schlug der russische Zar gnadenlos zurück. Über 400 Hinrichtungen wurden vollstreckt. Die Verwaltung und die Justiz wurden komplett russifiziert. Weit über 10 000 Verurteilungen zur Zwangsarbeit und mehr als 18 000 Menschen wurden nach Sibirien verschleppt. Ein paar Jahrzehnte später 1939 überfiel Hitler das polnische Land. Kein Wunder, wenn sich das polnische Volk nicht sicher sein kann. Sie mussten ihre Identität über viele Jahrzehnte gegenüber Russland und Deutschland aufgeben. Jetzt sieht es besser aus. Seit Jahren beobachte ich von meiner fränkischen Heimat aus, wie US amerikanische Transportflugzeuge fast täglich gegen 18 Uhr von der Air Base Ramstein in Rheinland Pfalz nach Polen fliegen. Die West Ost grenze in Polen wird abgesichert. Hoffentlich hält der Friede noch sehr, sehr lange an. In the west Germany, in the east Russia. Poland was always in between. Russia conquered the entire Polish territory from 1815. The Russian tsars ruled the country until 1863. The Polish people now rebelled against foreign rule. However, the Russian tsar struck back mercilessly. Over 400 executions were carried out. The administration and the judiciary were completely Russified. Well over 10,000 convictions of forced labor and more than 18,000 people were deported to Siberia. A few decades later, in 1939, Hitler invaded the Polish country. No wonder if the Polish people cannot be sure. They had to give up their identity to Russia and Germany over many decades. It looks better now. For years now, from my home in Franconia, I have been watching US transport planes fly from Ramstein Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate to Poland almost every day at around. Hopefully the peace will last a very, very long time.

Tutto comincia con Delitto e castigo, un romanzo che Paolo Nori legge da ragazzo: è una iniziazione e, al contempo, un'avventura. La scoperta è a suo modo violenta: quel romanzo, pubblicato centododici anni prima, a tremila chilometri di distanza, apre una ferita che non smette di sanguinare. "Sanguino ancora. Perché?" si chiede Paolo Nori, e la sua è una risposta altrettanto sanguinosa, anzi è un romanzo che racconta di un uomo che non ha mai smesso di trovarsi tanto spaesato quanto spietatamente esposto al suo tempo. Se da una parte Nori ricostruisce gli eventi capitali della vita di Fëdor M. Dostoevskij, dall'altra lascia emergere ciò che di sé, quasi fraternamente, Dostoevskij gli lascia raccontare. Perché di questa prossimità è fatta la convivenza con lo scrittore che più di ogni altro ci chiede di bruciare la distanza fra la nostra e la sua esperienza di esistere. Ingegnere senza vocazione, genio precoce della letteratura, nuovo Gogol', aspirante rivoluzionario, condannato a morte, confinato in Siberia, cittadino perplesso della "città più astratta e premeditata del globo terracqueo", giocatore incapace e disperato, marito innamorato, padre incredulo ("Abbiate dei figli! Non c'è al mondo felicità più grande", è lui che lo scrive), goffo, calvo, un po' gobbo, vecchio fin da quando è giovane, uomo malato, confuso, contraddittorio, disperato, ridicolo, così simile a noi. Quanto ci chiama, sembra chiedere Paolo Nori, quanto ci chiama a sentire la sua disarmante prossimità, il suo essere ferocemente solo, la sua smagliante unicità? Quanto ci chiama a riconoscere dove la sua ferita continua a sanguinare? contributori LE Paolo Nori

From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, hailed as “the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era” (The New Yorker), comes a masterful translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. “A master of psychological portraiture. . . . A testament to the power of the human will, the way it can marshal patience and imagination and hope.”—The New Criterion In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing. Notes from a Dead House (sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) depicts brutal punishments, feuds, betrayals, and the psychological effects of confinement, but it also reveals the moments of comedy and acts of kindness that Dostoevsky witnessed among his fellow prisoners. To get past government censors, Dostoevsky made his narrator a common-law criminal rather than a political prisoner, but the perspective is unmistakably his own. His incarceration was a transformative experience that nourished all his later works, particularly Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky’s narrator discovers that even among the most debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. His story is, finally, a profound meditation on freedom: “The prisoner himself knows that he is a prisoner; but no brands, no fetters will make him forget that he is a human being.”

Im Westen Deutschland, im Osten Russland. Polen lag immer dazwischen. Russland vereinnahmte seit 1815 das gesamte polnische Territorium. Die russischen Zaren herrschten bis 1863 in dem Land. Das polnische Volk lehnte sich nun gegen die Fremdherrschaft auf. Allerdings schlug der russische Zar gnadenlos zurück. Über 400 Hinrichtungen wurden vollstreckt. Die Verwaltung und die Justiz wurden komplett russifiziert. Weit über 10 000 Verurteilungen zur Zwangsarbeit und mehr als 18 000 Menschen wurden nach Sibirien verschleppt. Ein paar Jahrzehnte später 1939 überfiel Hitler das polnische Land. Kein Wunder, wenn sich das polnische Volk nicht sicher sein kann. Sie mussten ihre Identität über viele Jahrzehnte gegenüber Russland und Deutschland aufgeben. Jetzt sieht es besser aus. Seit Jahren beobachte ich von meiner fränkischen Heimat aus, wie US amerikanische Transportflugzeuge fast täglich gegen 18 Uhr von der Air Base Ramstein in Rheinland Pfalz nach Polen fliegen. Die West Ost grenze in Polen wird abgesichert. Hoffentlich hält der Friede noch sehr, sehr lange an. In the west Germany, in the east Russia. Poland was always in between. Russia conquered the entire Polish territory from 1815. The Russian tsars ruled the country until 1863. The Polish people now rebelled against foreign rule. However, the Russian tsar struck back mercilessly. Over 400 executions were carried out. The administration and the judiciary were completely Russified. Well over 10,000 convictions of forced labor and more than 18,000 people were deported to Siberia. A few decades later, in 1939, Hitler invaded the Polish country. No wonder if the Polish people cannot be sure. They had to give up their identity to Russia and Germany over many decades. It looks better now. For years now, from my home in Franconia, I have been watching US transport planes fly from Ramstein Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate to Poland almost every day at around. Hopefully the peace will last a very, very long time.

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"A wealth of knowledge ... For every incident, chasing Kornilov or dealing with Admiral Kolchak, the reader has a 360-degree view." - Roads to the Great War The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the attention of the military specialist and layman alike as we mark the one hundredth anniversary of the war's end. This work is the third volume of the three-volume Soviet official history of the Russian Civil War, which appeared during 1928-1930, just before the imposition of Stalinist orthodoxy. While the preceding volumes focused on the minutiae of the Red Army's organizational development and military art, this volume provides an in-depth description and analysis of the civil war's major operations along the numerous fronts, from the North Caucasus, the Don and Volga rivers, the White Sea area, the Baltic States and Ukraine, as well as Siberia and Poland. It also offers a well-argued case for the political reasons behind the Bolsheviks' military strategy and eventual success against their White opponents. And while it is a certainly a partisan document with a definite political bias, it is at the same time a straightforward military history that manages to avoid many of the hoary myths that later came to dominate the subject. As such, it is easily the most objective account of the struggle to emerge from the Soviet Union before the collapse of the communist system in 1991.

This study deals with the anthropology of the deportation trauma as experienced by the Kalmyks (1943-1956) and how it affects national identification. It shows the stigmatisation of Kalmyk identity in the years of deportation and response of the ethnic group to deprivation. The ever changing discourse of the Kalmyk issue, and political use of the trauma also receive attention. The study is innovative in Russian anthropology as it is the first anthropological study of the Kalmyk deportation as well as of the consequences of the trauma, and as it provides comparative insight by making use of similar experience of deprivation of other ethnic groups. The monograph contains a valuable corps of sources, especially oral, including analyses of folk songs and oral narratives. The novelty of the study also lies in that it applies gender methodology to the analysis of adaptation of men and women to extreme conditions of life and considers gender-specific differences in mechanisms of memory, recollection and oral narration. The monograph closes a gap in the study of collective and individual strategies of survival in conditions of deportation in Siberia and Central Asia. It demonstrates the existence of stigmatised ethnicity in the USSR. Among the conclusions the author arrives are that the Buddhist tradition played an important role in the way historic trauma was perceived by the Kalmyks, and that there was a factor of phenotypic difference leading Kalmyks in extreme conditions to strive to “dissolve” in the social environment using every chance to prove loyalty to the state. This left little chance for specific Kalmyk cultural features to resurge outside the home sphere. There is evidence that the trauma is something most Kalmyks have overcome. Its still deliberate accentuation appears to be pragmatically aimed into the future.

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This audiobook narrated by Ric Jerrom reveals how Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia—prevailed. A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East takes readers on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.

The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of China. There are currently 20 literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish with over 70 million speakers; other major languages covered include Azeri, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Noghay, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur and languages of Iran and South Siberia. The Turkic Languages is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Turkic family. Seen from a linguistic typology point of view, Turkic languages are particularly interesting because of their astonishing morphosyntactic regularity, their vast geographical distribution, and their great stability over time. This volume builds upon a work which has already become a defining classic of Turkic language study. The present, thoroughly revised edition updates and augments those authoritative accounts and reflects recent and ongoing developments in the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. The result is the fruit of decades-long experience in the teaching of the Turkic languages, their philology and literature, and also of a wealth of new insights into the linguistic phenomena and cultural interactions defining their development and use, both historically and in the present day. Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis with traditional historical linguistics; a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Written by an international team of experts, The Turkic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology, and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Haunting and luminous . An astonishing debut' - Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta 'A powerfully moving and thought provoking read. At times sublime, strange and deeply human' Adrian Tchaikovsky, bestselling author of the Children of Time series Siberia, 2031. After a virus, unearthed from melting permafrost, unleashes a deadly plague upon humanity, those left alive are forced to adapt to a new world, and do so in myriad moving and inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects - a pig - develops human speech; and a widowed painter and her teenage granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. A story of unshakeable hope that seamlessly crosses literary lines, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humankind endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible. [How High We Go in the Dark] reaches far beyond our stars while its heart remains rooted to Earth, and reminds us that our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of our world - Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

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This study deals with the anthropology of the deportation trauma as experienced by the Kalmyks (1943-1956) and how it affects national identification. It shows the stigmatisation of Kalmyk identity in the years of deportation and response of the ethnic group to deprivation. The ever changing discourse of the Kalmyk issue, and political use of the trauma also receive attention. The study is innovative in Russian anthropology as it is the first anthropological study of the Kalmyk deportation as well as of the consequences of the trauma, and as it provides comparative insight by making use of similar experience of deprivation of other ethnic groups. The monograph contains a valuable corps of sources, especially oral, including analyses of folk songs and oral narratives. The novelty of the study also lies in that it applies gender methodology to the analysis of adaptation of men and women to extreme conditions of life and considers gender-specific differences in mechanisms of memory, recollection and oral narration. The monograph closes a gap in the study of collective and individual strategies of survival in conditions of deportation in Siberia and Central Asia. It demonstrates the existence of stigmatised ethnicity in the USSR. Among the conclusions the author arrives are that the Buddhist tradition played an important role in the way historic trauma was perceived by the Kalmyks, and that there was a factor of phenotypic difference leading Kalmyks in extreme conditions to strive to “dissolve” in the social environment using every chance to prove loyalty to the state. This left little chance for specific Kalmyk cultural features to resurge outside the home sphere. There is evidence that the trauma is something most Kalmyks have overcome. Its still deliberate accentuation appears to be pragmatically aimed into the future.