" . . . a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era . . . " —Choice"This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialism's golden age." —Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward." —Slavic ReviewLenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.
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PrefaceI. Introduction: NEP Russia as a Transitional SocietyWilliam G. RosenbergII. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP SocietySheila FitzpatrickIII. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEPDiane P. KoenkerIV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925John B. HatchV. Workers' Artels and Soviet Production RelationsHiroaki KuromiyaVI. Private Trade and Traders during NEPR.E. JohnsonVII. Family Life in Moscow during NEPVIII. Working-Class Women and the Withering Away of the Family: Popular Responses to Family PolicyWendy Z. GoldmanIX. Razmychka? Urban Unemployment and Peasant In-migration as Sources of Social ConflictDouglas R. WeinerX. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: From Defending the Revolution to Building SocialismMark von HagenXI. Policing the NEP CountrysideNeil WeissmanXII. Insoluble Conflicts: Villiage Life Between Revolution and CollectivizationHelmut AltrichterXIII. The Quiet Revolution in Soviet Intellectual LifeKatrina ClarkXIV. The Press and Its Message: Images of America in the 1920s and 1930sJeffrey BrooksXV. Popular Literature of the 1920s: Russian Peasants as ReadersRegine RobinXVI. Popular Song in the NEP EraRobert A. RothsteinXVII. Bolshevik Ritual Building in the 1920sRichard StitesXVIII. Conclusion: Understanding NEP Society and Culture in the Light of New ResearchWilliam G. RosenbergSelected BibliographyLori A. CittiContributorsIndex
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ISBN
9780253206572
Publisert
1991-09-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Antall sider
356