04404nam 2200733Ia 450 991045771240332120200520144314.00-8014-7974-60-8014-6284-30-8014-6283-510.7591/9780801462832(CKB)2550000000063171(OCoLC)760279913(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508785(SSID)ssj0000564923(PQKBManifestationID)11378583(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564923(PQKBWorkID)10516560(PQKB)11559058(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495602(MiAaPQ)EBC3138259(OCoLC)966264874(MdBmJHUP)muse51838(DE-B1597)478624(OCoLC)979954122(DE-B1597)9780801462832(Au-PeEL)EBL3138259(CaPaEBR)ebr10508785(CaONFJC)MIL752083(OCoLC)922998282(EXLCZ)99255000000006317120110425d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCultivating the masses[electronic resource] modern state practices and Soviet socialism, 1914-1939 /David L. HoffmannIthaca Cornell University Press20111 online resource (342 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-336-20797-3 0-8014-4629-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Social Welfare -- 2. Public Health -- 3. Reproductive Policies -- 4. Surveillance and Propaganda -- 5. State Violence -- Conclusion -- Archives Consulted -- IndexUnder Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surveillance of the population went hand in hand with literacy campaigns, political education, and efforts to instill in people an appreciation of high culture.In Cultivating the Masses, David L. Hoffmann examines the Party leadership's pursuit of these seemingly contradictory policies in order to grasp fully the character of the Stalinist regime, a regime intent on transforming the socioeconomic order and the very nature of its citizens. To analyze Soviet social policies, Hoffmann places them in an international comparative context. He explains Soviet technologies of social intervention as one particular constellation of modern state practices. These practices developed in conjunction with the ambitions of nineteenth-century European reformers to refashion society, and they subsequently prompted welfare programs, public health initiatives, and reproductive regulations in countries around the world.The mobilizational demands of World War I impelled political leaders to expand even further their efforts at population management, via economic controls, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence. Born at this moment of total war, the Soviet system institutionalized these wartime methods as permanent features of governance. Party leaders, whose dictatorship included no checks on state power, in turn attached interventionist practices to their ideological goal of building socialism.Public welfareSoviet UnionWelfare stateSoviet UnionSocialismSoviet UnionSoviet UnionSocial policySoviet UnionSocial conditions1917-1945Electronic books.Public welfareWelfare stateSocialism361.94709/041Hoffmann David L(David Lloyd),1961-516717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457712403321Cultivating the masses845468UNINA