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Stalinism as a Way of Life - A Narrative in Documents (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
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Stalinism as a Way of Life - A Narrative in Documents (Paperback, Abridged Ed)
Series: Annals of Communism
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“Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the
real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the
newspaper haven’t heard this. . . that we don’t want to be on
the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there’s
nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?”—a farmer’s letter,
1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life What was life like
for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about
socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book
provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who
experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period.
The book contains 157 documents—mostly letters to authorities
from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret
police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and
party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected
from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown
documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of
Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic
decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and
linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes
as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience,
the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that
were directed to “decide everything.” In their own words,
peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and
children, men and women, Russians and people from other national
groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual
lives influenced—and were affected by—the larger events of
Soviet history.
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