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Author Edele, Mark

Title Stalinist Society 1928-1953
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (382 pages)
Series Oxford Histories
Oxford histories.
Contents PART I: 1. A Stalinist Life. PART II: 2. Forces of Destruction -- 3. Patterns of Chaos -- 4. Family Chronicles -- 5. Limping Behemoth -- 6. Apocalypse, Dialectics, and the Weather -- 7. 'Thank you, Comrade Stalin!' -- 8. Economy of Scarcity, Economy of Favours. Part III: 9. Politics of History
Summary Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist account of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society marred by violence. Combining the perspectives from above and from below, the book integrates recent writing on everyday life, culture and entertainment, ideology
Notes Print version record
Subject Social conditions
Regions & Countries - Europe.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
History & Archaeology.
Social Conditions.
Russia & Former Soviet Republics.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
Soviet Union -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125852
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191615931
0191615935
1283222914
9781283222914