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Everyday Stalinism
Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Description for Everyday Stalinism
Paperback. Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of the foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas, the book is an eye-opening account of day-to-day life in the blighted urban landscape of 1930's Russia Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
In the 1930s many Western intellectuals looked with hope and admiration at the great `Soviet experiment', the planned transformation of the economy that was supposed to lay the foundation for the world's first socialist society. Later, with the onset of the Cold War, the image of the `Evil Empire' predominated in the mind of Westerners. Yet what was it really like to be a citizen of Soviet Russia during this period? Everyday Stalinism is a pioneering history of everyday life in Soviet Russia. Rather than consider the history of the period from the perspective of the Soviet Party and its leaders, Sheila Fitzpatrick considers what life was like for ordinary people. A highly accessible study, Everyday Stalinism shows the ways of life, behaviours, and skills developed by citizens in order to cope with the extraordinary social and political change that Stalinism brought, ranging from scarcity of consumer goods, to the condemnation of religion, to bureaucratic red tape and state regulation of education, jobs, and career advancement.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195050011
SKU
V9780195050011
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About Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Everyday Stalinism
Of the two, Fitzpatrick is incomparably the finer historian . . . . There is no doubt abou the quality of Fitzpatrick's research . . .
THES, 12/04/2002
"A fine work
engrossing, well written, superbly documented, and much needed to boot....[The book's sources] make absolutely fascinating reading....An assiduous scholar, Professor Fitzpatrick seems to have scrutinized every relevant scrap of paper. Her explication is a model of balance and judiciousness....Individual memoirs apart, most histories of this period were written from the top
that is, showing how the policies were shaped and implemented, rather than how they were perceived and experienced by their subjects. It is the latter...that constitutes the major distinction of Fitzpatrick's book."
Abraham Brumberg, The Nation "The author's rich materials challenge readers to build their own model of Stalin's people, their complicity and resistance."
Wilson Quarterly "A most welcome addition to the literature on Stalin's Russia....Fitzpatrick has used the entire range of sources available, from familiar memoirs and postwar interview material to contemporary research and an array of archival information....The book is a major contribution to understanding this extraordinary period. Its lucid prose and the inherent interest of its subject matter should make it accessible to undergraduates, as well as to more specialized readers."
Choice "One of the most influential historians of the Soviet period describes what it was like to live under Stalin in the 1930s
the frantic, heroic, tragic decade of collectivization, forced-draft industrialization, and purges, when ordinary Russians struggled to a find a wearable pair of shoes and lined up in subzero weather at two o'clock in the morning in the hope of getting 16 grams of bread....They were years of unimaginable hardship and brutality but also of idealism, a surreal melange that [Fitzpatrick] captures with admirable matter-of-factness."
Foreign Affairs "A fine crossover book for both upperlevel and introductory courses....Well written."
Roger W. Haughey, Georgetown University "Everyday Stalinism should prove invaluable for any course on Soviet history. Knowing how a nation's people actually lived, thought, and felt is essential to any real understanding of the past. On this, Fitzpatrick
who has done more than any other scholar to make the complexities of the social history of the Stalin years come alive
delivers as no one else can."
John McCannon, Norwich University Review from previous edition "Fitzpatrick makes subtle use of the press and of police reports that assist in giving us one of the most comprhensive accounts of what it meant to live in Stalin's Russia in the 1930's"
Kirkus Reviews
THES, 12/04/2002
"A fine work
engrossing, well written, superbly documented, and much needed to boot....[The book's sources] make absolutely fascinating reading....An assiduous scholar, Professor Fitzpatrick seems to have scrutinized every relevant scrap of paper. Her explication is a model of balance and judiciousness....Individual memoirs apart, most histories of this period were written from the top
that is, showing how the policies were shaped and implemented, rather than how they were perceived and experienced by their subjects. It is the latter...that constitutes the major distinction of Fitzpatrick's book."
Abraham Brumberg, The Nation "The author's rich materials challenge readers to build their own model of Stalin's people, their complicity and resistance."
Wilson Quarterly "A most welcome addition to the literature on Stalin's Russia....Fitzpatrick has used the entire range of sources available, from familiar memoirs and postwar interview material to contemporary research and an array of archival information....The book is a major contribution to understanding this extraordinary period. Its lucid prose and the inherent interest of its subject matter should make it accessible to undergraduates, as well as to more specialized readers."
Choice "One of the most influential historians of the Soviet period describes what it was like to live under Stalin in the 1930s
the frantic, heroic, tragic decade of collectivization, forced-draft industrialization, and purges, when ordinary Russians struggled to a find a wearable pair of shoes and lined up in subzero weather at two o'clock in the morning in the hope of getting 16 grams of bread....They were years of unimaginable hardship and brutality but also of idealism, a surreal melange that [Fitzpatrick] captures with admirable matter-of-factness."
Foreign Affairs "A fine crossover book for both upperlevel and introductory courses....Well written."
Roger W. Haughey, Georgetown University "Everyday Stalinism should prove invaluable for any course on Soviet history. Knowing how a nation's people actually lived, thought, and felt is essential to any real understanding of the past. On this, Fitzpatrick
who has done more than any other scholar to make the complexities of the social history of the Stalin years come alive
delivers as no one else can."
John McCannon, Norwich University Review from previous edition "Fitzpatrick makes subtle use of the press and of police reports that assist in giving us one of the most comprhensive accounts of what it meant to live in Stalin's Russia in the 1930's"
Kirkus Reviews