Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades
Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
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Word Count
66,500 words, Guess
Page Count
266 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100253337682
- ISBN-139780253337689
- LibraryThing7785799
- Goodreads1229838
- Better World Books9780253337689
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- Open LibraryOL9754843M
Classifications
- LCCGT4856.A2P48 2000
Description
"In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this coincidence of terror and celebration? Using popular media and drawing extensively on documents from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, Karen Petrone demonstrates that to dismiss Soviet celebrations as mere diversion is to lose a valuable opportunity to understand how the Soviet system operated.". "This look at celebrations reveals the complex dialogues and negotiations between citizens and leaders in the endeavor to create Soviet culture."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
In January 1937, as the Soviet government staged the second Moscow show trial uncovering the supposed treason of "the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Center," Soviet cadres had just finished celebrating the ratification of the new Stalin Constitution and organizing elki (New Year's trees) for children.
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