Stalinism : new directions / edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Other author Fitzpatrick, Sheila.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Descriptionxviii, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
Soviet Union--Politics and government. --1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Politics and government. --1936-1953.
Soviet Union--Social conditions. --1917-1945.
Soviet Union--Social conditions. --1945-1991.

SeriesRewriting histories
Rewriting histories. ^A601192
Contents Introduction / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Part I. Social identities. Ascribing class: the construction of social identity in Soviet Russia / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- "Us against them": social identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41 / Sarah Davies -- Part II. Private and public practices. Fashioning the Stalinist soul: the diary of Stepan Podlubnyi, 1931-9 / Jochen Hellbeck -- Denunciation and its functions in Soviet governance: from the archive of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1944-53 / Vladimir A. Kozlov -- Games of Stalinist democracy: ideological discussions in Soviet sciences 1947-52 / Alexei Kojevnikov -- Part III. Consumption and civilization. Cultured trade: the Stalinist turn towards consumerism / Julie Hessler -- The concept of kul'turnost': notes on the Stalinist civilizing process / Vadim Volkov -- "Dear comrade, you ask what we need": socialist paternalism and Soviet rural "notables" in the mid-1930s / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Part IV. Varieties of terror. The purging of local cliques in the Urals region, 1936-7 / James R. Harris -- "Socially harmful elements and the Great Terror / Paul Hagenloh -- Part V. Nationality as a status. The Soviet Union as a communal apartment, or how a socialist state promoted ethnic particularism / Yuri Slezkine -- Modernization or neo-traditionalism? Ascribed nationality and Soviet primordialism / Terry Martin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 368-369) and index.
LCCN 99012609
ISBN041515233X (hb)
ISBN0415152348 (pb)