Everything is wonderful
Subtitle: memories of a collective farm in Estonia
By: Sigrid Rausing
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780802122179; 9780802192813
Subjects: Post-communism; Ethnic identity; Collective farms; Social conditions; Travel; Swedes
Description: In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, a young student working on a PhD in Anthropology, went to spend a year living in Estonia, a remote Baltic State that had just gained independence from the recently collapsed Soviet Union. Armed with a notebook, rudimentary Estonian, and a clunky laptop, she arrived in the peninsula of Noarootsi, on Estonia's north-western tip, and made her way to the village of Purksi, the place that would be her home for the next twelve months.
Table of contents: title: The collective farm; title: Former owners; title: The Russians; title: The new reality; title: The mercy of God; title: History; title: Dear comrades; title: Winter; title: Normal life; title: Everything is wonderful; title: Swirls of dust; title: Summer.