Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times : Soviet Russia in the 1930s - Rilegato

Fitzpatrick, Sheila

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ISBN 10: 0195050002 ISBN 13: 9780195050004

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history.
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods became endemic. As peasants fled the collectivized villages, major cities were soon in the grip of an acute housing crisis, with families jammed for decades in tiny single rooms in communal apartments, counting living space in square meters. It was a world of privation, overcrowding, endless queues, and broken families, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned everyday life into a nightmare, and of the ways that ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it, primarily by patronage and the ubiquitous system of personal connections known asblat. And we read of the police surveillance that was endemic to this society, and the waves of terror like the Great Purges of 1937, that periodically cast this world into turmoil. Fitzpatrick illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, traveling, telling jokes, finding an apartment, getting an education, landing a job, cultivating patrons and connections, marrying and raising a family, writing complaints and denunciations, voting, and trying to steer clear of the secret police.
Based on extensive research in Soviet archives only recently opened to historians, this superb book illuminates the ways ordinary people tried to live normal lives under extraordinary circumstances.

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L'autore:

Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches modern Russian History at the University of Chicago. A former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and a co-editor ofThe Journal of Modern History, she is also the author of Stalin's Peasants,The Russian Revolution, and many other books and articles about Russia.

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Book by Fitzpatrick Sheila

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195050002
• ISBN 13: 9780195050004
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288