New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union.

List of Illustrations

A Note on Terminology and Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter 1  Backward Gypsies, Soviet Citizens:  The All-Russian Gypsy Union
Chapter 2  A Political Education:  Soviet Values and Practical Realities in Gypsy Schools
Chapter 3  Parasites, Pariahs, and Proletarians:  Class Struggle And the Forging of a Gypsy Proletariat
Chapter 4  Nomads into Farmers:  Romani Activism and the Territorialization of (In)Difference
Chapter 5  Pornography or Authenticity?  Performing Gypsiness on the Soviet Stage
Epilogue and Conclusion:  “Am I a Gypsy or Not a Gypsy?”:  Nationality and the Performance of Soviet Selfhood 

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Brigid O’Keeffe is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.