Late Stalinist Russia: Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention

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Routledge, Sep 27, 2006 - Social Science - 288 pages

The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'. Written by top scholars from high profile universities, this impressive work brings together much new, cutting edge research on a wide range of aspects of late Stalinist society. Filling a gap in the literature, it focuses above all on the experience of the Soviet people and their interaction with ideology, state policy and national and international politics.

 

Contents

a subaltern interpretation
Acknowledgements
When the war was over
The bitter legacy of the Great Patriotic War Red Army disabled soldiers
Subversive tales? War rumours in the Soviet Union 19451947
Standard of living versus quality of life Struggling with the urban
Into the grey zone Sham peasants and the limits of the kolkhoz order in
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New generations Identity between the yesterday of war and the possibilities
Childrens lives after Zoias death Order emotions and heroism in childrens
The importance of being stylish Youth culture and identity in late Stalinism
Postwar spaces Reconstructing a new world
Where should we resettle the comrades next? The adjudication of housing
The Moscow Gorky Street in late Stalinism Space history and Lebenswelten
Notes
Index

A darker Big Deal Concealing party crimes in the postSecond World War

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