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Title: Everything Is Wonderful
Subtitle: Memories of a Collective Farm in Estonia
Author: Sigrid Rausing
Narrator: Sigrid Rausing
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-24-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Travel & Adventure, Essays & Travelogues
Publisher's Summary:
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 watchtowers dotted the coastline, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were lying fallow, waiting for claims from former owners, fleeing war and Soviet and Nazi occupation. Rausings conversations with the local people touched on many subjects: the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. In Everything Is Wonderful Rausing reflects on history, political repression, and the story of the minority Swedes in the area. She lived and worked amongst the villagers, witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity.
