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