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The transnational world of the Cominternians / Brigitte Studer, University of Bern, Switzerland ; translated by Dafydd Rees Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Studer, Brigitte, author.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Communist International--Officials and employees--History--20th century.
- Communist International.
- Communists--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
- Communists.
- Transnationalism--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism.
- Vsesoi͡uznai͡a kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a (bolʹshevikov)--History.
- Vsesoi͡uznai͡a kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a (bolʹshevikov).
- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za--History.
- Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za.
- Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza.
- History.
- Cosmopolitanism--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Political culture--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Social change--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Moscow (Russia)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Moscow (Russia)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 227 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "The 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world. Full of sympathy, eager to learn, hopeful of emulating Bolshevik success 'at home', they were first-hand witnesses to the difficulties of the young Russian Revolution, before seeing it descend into the terror to which many of them fell victim. This book tells of their experience through these decades, of the encounter between utopian imagination and the real, and how the Party as institution sought to bend subjectivity to its needs, even as they became ever more questionable. Opened some 25 years ago, the Comintern archives provide a surprising wealth of autobiographical materials generated by these militants, and it is on these that this account of political commitment and its vicissitudes is based"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. The Bolshevik Model
- 2. The New Woman
- 3. In Stalin's Moscow
- 4. Soviet Party Practices
- 5. Becoming a "Real Bolshevik"
- 6. The Party and the Private
- 7. From Comrades to Spies
- 8. Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137510280
- 1137510285
- OCLC:
- 898925191
- Publisher Number:
- 99963180869
- Online:
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