LEADER 04547nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910451834203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-72171-9 010 $a9786611721718 010 $a0-300-12859-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128598 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471957 035 $a(EBL)3420366 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000250466 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250466 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232507 035 $a(PQKB)11194872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420366 035 $a(DE-B1597)485163 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128598 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420366 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210249 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172171 035 $a(OCoLC)923592645 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471957 100 $a20000419d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStalinism as a way of life$b[electronic resource] $ea narrative in documents /$fLewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov ; documents compiled by Ludmila Kosheleva ... [et al.] ; text preparation and commentary by Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, and Sergei Zhuravlev ; translated from the Russian by Thomas Hoisington and Steven Shabad 210 $aNew Haven, Conn. $cYale University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (495 p.) 225 1 $aAnnals of Communism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-08480-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes on Transliteration and Terminology --$tA Note on the Documents --$tGlossary and Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Socialist Offensive --$tCHAPTER TWO. "Cadres Decide Everything!" --$tCHAPTER THREE. Stalin's Constitution --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Love and Plenty --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Bolshevik Order on the Kolkhoz --$tCHAPTER SIX. Happy Childhoods --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex of Documents --$tGeneral Index 330 $a"Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this. . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"-a farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930's? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents-mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything." In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced-and were affected by-the larger events of Soviet history. 410 0$aAnnals of Communism. 606 $aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. 676 $a947.084 701 $aSiegelbaum$b Lewis H$0128086 701 $aSokolov$b A. K$01026568 701 $aKosheleva$b L$01030574 701 $aZhuravlev$b S. V$g(Sergei? Vladimirovich)$01030575 701 $aHoisington$b Thomas H$01030576 701 $aShabad$b Steven$01030577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451834203321 996 $aStalinism as a way of life$92447527 997 $aUNINA