Everyday Stalinism
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Fitzpatrick, Sheila
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0195050010
Copyright: 2000
Dewey Decimal: 947
Book Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 1
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