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Stalinist Society - 1928-1953 (Hardcover)
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Stalinist Society - 1928-1953 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Histories
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Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex
social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the
late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival
materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new
memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years
of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist account of
social upheaval and social cohesion in a society marred by
violence. Combining the perspectives from above and from below, the
book integrates recent writing on everyday life, culture and
entertainment, ideology and politics, terror and welfare,
consumption and economics. Utilizing the latest archival research
on the evolution of Soviet society during and after World War II,
this study also integrates the entire history of Stalinism from the
late 1920s to the dictator's death in 1953. Breaking radically with
current scholarly consensus, Mark Edele shows that it was not
ideology, terror, or state control which held this society
together, but the harsh realities of making a living in a chaotic
economy which the rulers claimed to plan and control, but which in
fact they could only manage haphazardly.
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