03978nam 2200721 450 991045331420332120200520144314.00-691-11353-X1-4008-4373-110.1515/9781400843732(CKB)2550000001163396(EBL)1565230(OCoLC)863824882(SSID)ssj0000333469(PQKBManifestationID)11240045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333469(PQKBWorkID)10355617(PQKB)10633270(MiAaPQ)EBC1565230(OCoLC)558444086(MdBmJHUP)muse43202(DE-B1597)453647(OCoLC)979629662(DE-B1597)9781400843732(Au-PeEL)EBL1565230(CaPaEBR)ebr10805910(CaONFJC)MIL545532(EXLCZ)99255000000116339620040827h20052005 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTear off the masks! identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia /Sheila FitzpatrickCourse BookPrinceton, [N.J.] :Princeton University Press,[2005]©20051 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-12245-8 1-306-14281-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. Class identities -- part II. Lives -- part III. Appeals -- part IV. Denunciations -- part V. Impostures.When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid the foundations of the Soviet state, and again in 1991, when that state collapsed. Tear Off the Masks! is about the remaking of identities in these times of upheaval. Sheila Fitzpatrick here brings together in a single volume years of distinguished work on how individuals literally constructed their autobiographies, defended them under challenge, attempted to edit the "file-selves" created by bureaucratic identity documentation, and denounced others for "masking" their true social identities. Marxist class-identity labels--"worker," "peasant," "intelligentsia," "bourgeois"--were of crucial importance to the Soviet state in the 1920's and 1930's, but it turned out that the determination of a person's class was much more complicated than anyone expected. This in turn left considerable scope for individual creativity and manipulation. Outright imposters, both criminal and political, also make their appearance in this book. The final chapter describes how, after decades of struggle to construct good Soviet socialist personae, Russians had to struggle to make themselves fit for the new, post-Soviet world in the 1990's--by "de-Sovietizing" themselves. Engaging in style and replete with colorful detail and characters drawn from a wealth of sources, Tear Off the Masks! offers unique insight into the elusive forms of self-presentation, masking, and unmasking that made up Soviet citizenship and continue to resonate in the post-Soviet world.Group identitySoviet UnionSocial classesSoviet UnionGroup identityRussia (Federation)Social classesRussia (Federation)Electronic books.Group identitySocial classesGroup identitySocial classes305/.0947/0904Fitzpatrick Sheila46835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453314203321Tear off the masks1243509UNINA