Everything Is Wonderful: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia

by Sigrid Rausing

Book Overview

Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism. In 1993-94 Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watch towers dotted the coast line,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802122175
• ISBN13: 9780802122179
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"