Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village

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SOLOVYOVO Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page i Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page ii SOLOVYOVO The Story of Memory in a Russian Village Margaret Paxson WOODROW WILSON CENTER PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOOMINGTON Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page iii EDITORIAL OFFICES Woodrow Wilson Center Press One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004-3027 Telephone 202-691-4029 www.wilsoncenter.org ORDER FROM Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 Telephone 1-812-855-7931 inpress.indiana.edu©2005 by Margaret Paxson All rights reserved All photographs copyright Lucian Perkins Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Paxson, Margaret. Solovyovo : the story of memory in a Russian village / Margaret Paxson. p. cm. Solovyovo is the fictitious name of a small village in the Belozerskii Raion of Vologodskaia oblast’ used to protect the name of the real villagers. ISBN 0-253-34654-1 (IUP : cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21801-2 (IUP : pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ethnography—Russia (Federation)—Belozerskii Raion (Vologodskaia oblast’) 2. Belozerskii Raion (Vologodskaia oblast’, Russia)—Social life and customs. 3. Memory—Social aspects—Russia (Federation)—Belozerskii Raion (Vologodskaia oblast’) 4. Belozerskii Raion (Vologodskaia oblast’, Russia)—Rural conditions. 5. Paxson, Margaret. I. Title. DK511.B3853P39 2005 947′.19—dc22 2005008551 Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page iv The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a living national memorial to President Wilson. The Center’s mission is to commemorate the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by providing a link between the worlds of ideas and policy, while fostering research, study, discussion and collaboration among a broad spectrum of individuals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and international affairs. Supported by public and private funds, the Center is a nonpartisan institution engaged in the study of national and world affairs. It establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. Conclusions or opinions expressed in Center publications and programs are those of the authors and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center staff, fellows, trustees, advisory groups, or any individuals or organizations that provide financial support to the Center. The Center is the publisher of The Wilson Quarterly and home of Woodrow Wilson Center Press, dialogue radio and television, and the monthly newsletter “Centerpoint.” For more information about the Center’s activities and publications, please visit us on the Web at www .wilsoncenter.org. Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director Board of Trustees Joseph B. Gildenhorn, Chair David A. Metzner, Vice Chair Public members: James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State; Lawrence M. Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education; Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States Private Citizen Members: Carol Cartwright, Robin Cook, Donald E. Garcia, Bruce S. Gelb, Charles L. Glazer, Tami Longaberger, Ignacio E. Sanchez Paxson.front 8/16/05 10:06 AM Page v ...