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Today, Russian is spoken readily and cheerfully, and the Russians in the Czech Republic are mostly of two varieties: tourists who spend money here, including the nouveau riche who spend quite a lot of it, and guest workers who, after the misery of Russian or Ukrainian provinces, are content with even menial jobs. Stephen Lovell's Summerfolk is an elegant analysis of the cultural meanings and social practices that have shaped the dacha's history over almost three hundred years, from its aristocratic origins in the eighteenth century to its latest nouveau riche incarnation in post-Soviet Russia. ``It was the money from the colonies that made the empire rich, and it made the nouveau riche want to belong to the older monied aristocracy,'' Nair explains. |
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