Stalinist society, 1928-1953 / Mark Edele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edele, Mark.

Series:

Oxford histories.

Oxford histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920's to the early 1950's. 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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-22291-4

9786613222916

0-19-161593-5

OCLC:

746747087