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Stalin's Citizens - Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Hardcover)
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Stalin's Citizens - Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Hardcover)
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The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin,
this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of
expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist state
understood citizenship as practice, with participation in a set of
political rituals and public display of certain "civic emotions"
serving as the marker of a person's inclusion in the political
world. The state's relations with its citizens were structured by
rituals of celebration, thanking, and hatred-rites that required
both political awareness and a demonstrable emotional response.
Soviet functionaries transmitted this obligation to ordinary
citizens through the mechanisms of communal authority (workplace
committees, volunteer agitators, and other forms of peer pressure)
as much as through brutal state coercion. Yet, the population also
often imbued these ceremonies-elections, state holidays, parades,
mass rallies, subscriptions to state bonds-with different meanings:
as a popular fete, an occasion to get together after work, a chance
to purchase goods not available on other days, and even as an
opportunity to indulge in some drinking. The people also understood
these political rituals as moments of negotiation whereby citizens
fulfilling their "patriotic duty " expected the state to
reciprocate by providing essential services and basic social
welfare. Nearly-universal passive resistance to required attendance
casts doubt on recent theories about the mass internalization of
communist ideology and the development of "Soviet subjectivities.
"The book is set in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv during the last
years of World War II and immediate postwar years, the period best
demonstrating how formulaic rituals could create space for the
people to express their concerns, fears, and prejudices, as well as
their eagerness to be viewed as citizens in good standing. By the
end of Stalin's rule, a more ossified routine of political
participation developed, which persisted until the Soviet Union's
collapse.
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