The first study of popular opinions in post-revolutionary
Russia, this volume is based on new documentation of OGPU and party
surveillance on the population, extracts from private letters,
diaries, British Foreign Office reports and talks leaked by OGPU
informants. These archival sources show an increasing
disenchantment of a generation, which resulted in revolution. The
population resisted the Soviet mobilization campaigns, which
promoted workers-peasants unity, the achievements of socialism and
new socialist patriotism. The Bolsheviks failed to reach a national
consensus and unite the nation around the great aim of socialist
construction. The story of the legitimacy crisis at the end of the
1920s presents an important argument in the explanation of why, in
1927, when faced with economical, political and social crisis at
home and in foreign politics, the Bolsheviks started changing their
politics in favour of the more oppressive and dictatorial
methods.
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