Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades
Celebrations in the Time of Stalin
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 for understanding how the Soviet system operated. As the state attempted to mobilize citizens to participate in the project to create New Soviet men and women, celebration culture became more than a means to distract a population suffering from poverty and deprivation.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-33768-9
- EAN: 9780253337689
- Produktnummer: 1815049
- Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.9 cm 595 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 595
Über den Autor
Karen Petrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.
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