Justine Buck Quijada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on shamanism, secularism, and ritual. She is co-editor of Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia.

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets not only offers a fresh and insightful approach to post -- Soviet Buryatia. It is a field building study that will surely inspire future studies of history making in the ruins of authoritarian regimes still haunted by the dead.

• Acknowledgements Note on Transliterations, Translations and Photographs Chronology Introduction: If you want to have a future you have to have a good relationship to your past Chapter 1: An Inauguration for Etigelov: Multiple Genres of History in Buryatia Chapter 2: Soviet Selves: Victory Day Chapter 3: City Day, Hospitality, the Friendship of the Peoples and Multikulturalizm Chapter 4: Etigelov at Maidari: The Once and Future Buddhist Chapter 5: Opening the Center, Opening the Roads Chapter 6: Porous Selves: Yuri's Initiation Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index

Justine Buck Quijada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on shamanism, secularism, and ritual. She is co-editor of Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia.

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets not only offers a fresh and insightful approach to post -- Soviet Buryatia. It is a field building study that will surely inspire future studies of history making in the ruins of authoritarian regimes still haunted by the dead.

• Acknowledgements Note on Transliterations, Translations and Photographs Chronology Introduction: If you want to have a future you have to have a good relationship to your past Chapter 1: An Inauguration for Etigelov: Multiple Genres of History in Buryatia Chapter 2: Soviet Selves: Victory Day Chapter 3: City Day, Hospitality, the Friendship of the Peoples and Multikulturalizm Chapter 4: Etigelov at Maidari: The Once and Future Buddhist Chapter 5: Opening the Center, Opening the Roads Chapter 6: Porous Selves: Yuri's Initiation Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index