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Author |
: Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1999-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195050004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195050002 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Stalinism by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
Author |
: Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 1999-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199839247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199839247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Stalinism by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil.
Author |
: Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195050011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195050010 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Stalinism by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Drawing on research from newly opened Soviet archives, a leading authority on modern Russian history shows how living conditions and day-to-day practices changed dramatically in Soviet Russia with Stalin's revolution of the 1930s--forcing ordinary people to live under extraordinary circumstances. 5 halftones. 5 illustrations.
Author |
: Orlando Figes |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 970 |
Release |
: 2008-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141808871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 014180887X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Whisperers by : Orlando Figes
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
Author |
: Serhy Yekelchyk |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199378449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199378444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalin's Citizens by : Serhy Yekelchyk
The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The book is set in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv during the last one and a half years of World War II and immediate postwar years, the period best demonstrating how formulaic rituals could create space for the people to express their concerns, fears, and prejudices, as well as their eagerness to be viewed as citizens in good standing.
Author |
: Sheila Fitzpatrick |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195104595 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195104592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalin's Peasants by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Author |
: Timothy Johnston |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2011-08-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199604036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199604037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being Soviet by : Timothy Johnston
Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It examines how the language of Soviet identity evolved in this period, and how ordinary citizens responded to that shift.
Author |
: Julie S. Draskoczy |
Publisher |
: Academic Studies PRess |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 2019-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781618119346 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1618119346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belomor by : Julie S. Draskoczy
Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
Author |
: Choi Chatterjee |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2015-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253012609 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253012600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Life in Russia by : Choi Chatterjee
A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored. “Offers readers a richly theoretical and empirical consideration of the ‘state of play’ of everyday life as it applies to the interdisciplinary study of Russia.” —Slavic Review “An engaging look at a vibrant area of research . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice “Volumes of such diversity frequently miss the mark, but this one represents a welcomed introduction to and a ‘must’ read for anyone seriously interested in the subject.” —Cahiers du Monde russe
Author |
: Lewis H. Siegelbaum |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300128598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300128592 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalinism As a Way of Life by : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
"Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this. . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"-a farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents-mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything." In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced-and were affected by-the larger events of Soviet history.