Brigid O’Keeffe

Brigid O’Keeffe is an associate professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press).

The Roma homeland that never was

Roma remain one of Europe’s — and Russia’s — most marginalised communities. But in the 1930s, the USSR considered creating for the Roma their very own republic.

By Brigid O’Keeffe

/ 16 Dec 2016