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  • Stalinist Society: 1928-1953

    Stalinist Society by Edele, Mark;

    1928-1953

    Series: Oxford Histories;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 17 February 2011

    • ISBN 9780199236411
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages384 pages
    • Size 212x141x23 mm
    • Weight 482 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, 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.

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

    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 and politics, terror and welfare, consumption and economics.

    Utilizing the latest archival research on the evolution of Soviet society during and after World War II, this study also integrates the entire history of Stalinism from the late 1920s to the dictator's death in 1953. Breaking radically with current scholarly consensus, Mark Edele shows that it was not ideology, terror, or state control which held this society together, but the harsh realities of making a living in a chaotic economy which the rulers claimed to plan and control, but which in fact they could only manage haphazardly.

    the breadth of its engagement should make it a thought-provoking read for graduate students and professionals alike.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Introduction
    Part I
    A Stalinist Life
    Part II
    Forces of Destruction
    Patterns of Chaos
    Family Chronicles
    Limping Behemoth
    Utopia, Apocalypse, and the Weather
    'Thank You, Comrade Stalin!'
    Economy of Scarcity, Economy of Favors
    Part III
    Politics of History
    Select Bibliography
    Index

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