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Stalinism as a Way of Life by Lewis H. Siegelbaum & Andrei Sokolov
A Narrative in Documents
A discussion of the responses of those who experienced first-hand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents, including letters to authorities from Soviet citizens and reports compiled by the secret police, accompanied by introductory and linking commentary.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. |
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| Author(s) : Lewis H. Siegelbaum | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0300084803 | ISBN-13 : 9780300084801 |
| RRP : £20.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Annals of Communism S.
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 11/12/2000
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page Length : 470mm
Page Size : 234mm