| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Popular resistance in the Stalinist 1930s : soliloquy of a devil's advocate / Lynne Viola -- A workers' strike in Stalin's Russia : the Vichuga Uprising of April 1932 / Jeffrey J. Rossman -- A peasant rebellion in Stalin's Russia : the Pitelinskii Uprising, Riazan 1930 / Tracy McDonald -- Subaltern dialogues : subversion and resistance in Soviet Uzbek family law / Douglas Northrop -- Sexual and gender dissent : homosexuality as resistance in Stalin's Russia / Dan Healey -- Economic disobedience under Stalin / Elena A. Osokina -- Resisting the plan in the Urals, 1928-1956, or, Why regional officials needed "wreckers" and "saboteurs" / James Harris |
| Summary |
Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by myths of Russian fatalism and submission as well as by the very real powers of the Stalinist state are startled by the dimensions of popular resistance under Stalin. Narratives of such resistance are inherently interesting, yet the topic is also significant because it sheds light on its historical surroundings. Contending with Stalinism employs the idea of resistance as a tool to explore what otherwise would remain opaque features of the social, cultural, and political history of the 1930s. In the process, the authors reveal a semi-autonomous world residing within and beyond the official world of Stalinism. Resistance ranged across a spectrum from violent strikes to the passive resistance that was a virtual way of life for millions and took many forms, from foot dragging and negligence to feigned ignorance and false compliance. Contending with Stalinism also highlights the problematic nature of resistance as an analytical category and stresses the ambiguous nature of the phenomenon. The topics addressed include working-class strikes, peasant rebellions, black-market crimes, official corruption, and homosexual and ethnic subcultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava gnd |
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Government, Resistance to -- Soviet Union
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Government, Resistance to
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Politische Verfolgung
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Stalinismus
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Widerstand
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Verzetsacties.
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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Sowjetunion
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Viola, Lynne
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| ISBN |
9781501717291 |
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1501717294 |
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